
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 1644 Paris & 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin also known as Molière is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father & true master of comic satire author of The Misanthrope & Tartuffe & a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare & Sophocles Far from it He is in fact a failed actor His Illustrious Theatre Troupe founded the previous year is bankrupt Hounded by creditors Molière is thrown into jail released then swiftly imprisoned again When the jailors finally let him go he disappears The combined efforts of historians have unearthed no trace of him before his reappearance several months later when his troupe begins touring the provinces
- a tour that will last for thirteen years & culminate in Molière&s triumphant return to Paris in 1658 Actors Romain Duris Fabrice Luchini Laura Morante Edouard Baer Ludivine Sagnier Fanny Valette Melanie Dos Santos Gonzague Requillart & Gilian Petrovski Director Laurent Tirard Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages French Subtitles English