Overview
Plot
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine for murder and theft. He gives police inspector Allard his life story, written in prison, and asks him to care for Hermine, his ward for over ten years.
- Directors
- Francis Girod
- 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
- Country
- France
- Genre
- Drama
- Release date
- 1990-12-19
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In flashbacks drawn from Lacenaire's prison writings, Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and other readers' memories after publication, the film traces Lacenaire's life: his childhood standing up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, a brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
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