8 reviews
Drama
2h 5m
1990
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...

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.
- DirectorFrancis Girod
- Release19 December 1990
- GenreDrama
- Duration2h 5m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate8 reviews
- Productions
Cast

Daniel Auteuil
Pierre-François Lacenaire

Jean Poiret
Allard

Jacques Weber
Jacques Arago

François Périer
Lacenaire's father

Geneviève Casile
Lacenaire's mother

Jean Davy
Alphonse Damoiseau

Jacques Duby
Marmignat

Paul Le Person
Vigouroux

Maïwenn
Hermine

Jacques Sereys
Pertuizet

Rufus
Canler

Gérard Desarthe
Professor Tonnelier

Jean-Damien Barbin
Baton

Marie-Armelle Deguy
Princess Ida

Samuel Labarthe
The abbot of Lusignan

Jean-Pierre Miquel
The president of the court

Jean-Paul Muel
Poulaillon

Patrick Pineau
Avril

Aurélien Recoing
François

Jean-Michel Ribes
Lebel

Daniel Mesguich
Ida's husband

François-Régis Bastide
The superior

Claude Makovski
General Counsel

Michel Vocoret
The big

Gérald Calderon
May father

Henri Lanoë
The first mogul

Henri Colpi
The head of the prison
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