The Elegant Criminal
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.
Released: 1990
Genre:
Drama
Casts:
Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber, François Périer, Daniel Auteuil, Geneviève Casile, Jacques Sereys, Jacques Duby, Maïwenn, Rufus, Paul Le Person, Jean-Paul Muel, Samuel Labarthe, Marie-Armelle Deguy, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Aurélien Recoing, Yves Dangerfield, Jean Davy, Daniel Mesguich, Jean-Damien Barbin, Gérard Desarthe, Patrick Pineau, Jean-Michel Ribes, François-Régis Bastide, Claude Makovski, Gérald Calderon, Jean-Luc Douin, Henri Lanoë, Maurice Bernart, Michel Vocoret, Henri Colpi, Bertrand Van Effenterre