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Elegant Criminal (The)
Original Title
Lacenaire- Director: Francis Girod
- Writer: Georges Conchon; Francis Girod
- Producer: Ariel Zeitoun
CGiii Comment
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.
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Cast & Characters
Daniel Auteuil as Pierre-Francois Lacenaire;
Jean Poiret as Allard;
Jacques Weber as Jacques Arago;
Francois Perier as Le pere de Lacenaire / Lacenaire's Father;
Genevieve Casile as La mere de Lacenaire / Lacenaire's Mother;
Jean Davy as Alphonse Damoiseau;
Jacques Duby as Marmignat;
Paul Le Person as Vigouroux;
Maiwenn Le Besco as Hermine;
Jacques Sereys as Pertuizet;
Rufus as Canler;
Gerard Desarthe as Professeur Tonnelier / Professor Tonnelier;
Jean-Damien Barbin as Baton;
Marie-Armelle Deguy as Princesse Ida;
Samuel Labarthe as L'abbe de Lusignan