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The Elegant Criminal
The Elegant Criminal

1990 · 2h 5m · Released

Drama

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.

Director

Francis Girod

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil

Pierre-François Lacenaire

Jean Poiret

Jean Poiret

Allard

Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber

Jacques Arago

François Périer

François Périer

Lacenaire's father

Geneviève Casile

Geneviève Casile

Lacenaire's mother

Jean Davy

Jean Davy

Alphonse Damoiseau

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