The Elegant Criminal | Lacenaire
The Elegant CriminalLacenaire
Overview
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Cast
Daniel Auteuil
Jean Poiret
Jacques Weber
François Périer
Geneviève Casile
Jean Davy
Jacques Duby
Paul Le Person
Maïwenn
Jacques Sereys
Rufus
Gérard Desarthe
Jean-Damien Barbin
Marie-Armelle Deguy
Samuel Labarthe
Jean-Pierre Miquel
Jean-Paul Muel
Patrick Pineau
Aurélien Recoing
Yves Dangerfield
Jean-Michel Ribes
Daniel Mesguich
François-Régis Bastide
Claude Makovski
Maurice Bernart
Michel Vocoret
Gérald Calderon
Henri Lanoë
Jean-Luc Douin
Bertrand Van Effenterre
Henri Colpi
Crew
Francis Girod
Georges Conchon
Francis Girod
Ariel Zeitoun
