Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
Acting
Guitry's theatrical magnetism carries every scene he inhabits.
Writing
Witty dialogue that makes science debates feel like drawing-room comedy.
Director
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry
Louis Pasteur
Maurice Schutz
Grandfather
José Squinquel
Émile Roux
Jean Périer
Doctor
André Marnay
Doctor
Pierre Labry
Doctor
Armand Lurville
The first witness
Henry Bonvallet
Sadi Carnot, President of the Republic
Gaston Dubosc
President of the Academy of Medicine
François Rodon
Little Joseph Meister
Louis Maurel
Jules Guérin
Louis Gauthier
Poggiale
Pierre Huchet
Servant (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guitry filmed this in 1935 but had played Pasteur on stage sixteen years earlier — he was literally reprising a role from before the Jazz Age.
This arrived when France was rebuilding scientific pride after WWI's medical horrors; Pasteur became national myth as much as man.
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