The Elegant Criminal

Release date: 12/19/1990

Genres:

Drama

Countries:

France

Rating:

5.2

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.

Actors

Daniel Auteuil

Pierre-François Lacenaire

Jean Poiret

Allard

Jacques Weber

Jacques Arago

François Périer

Lacenaire's father

Geneviève Casile

Lacenaire's mother

Jean Davy

Alphonse Damoiseau

Jacques Duby

Marmignat

Paul Le Person

Vigouroux

Maïwenn

Hermine

Jacques Sereys

Pertuizet

Rufus

Canler

Gérard Desarthe

Professor Tonnelier

Jean-Damien Barbin

Baton

Marie-Armelle Deguy

Princess Ida

Samuel Labarthe

The abbot of Lusignan

Jean-Pierre Miquel

The president of the court

Jean-Paul Muel

Poulaillon

Patrick Pineau

Avril

Aurélien Recoing

François

Jean-Michel Ribes

Lebel

Daniel Mesguich

Ida's husband

François-Régis Bastide

The superior

Michel Vocoret

The big

Gérald Calderon

May father

Henri Lanoë

The first mogul

Henri Colpi

The head of the prison

The Elegant Criminal

Actors

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