Molière (new edition) | Ariane Mnouchkine & Théâtre du Soleil (DVD & Blu-ray)

Ariane Mnouchkine's iconic biopic "Molière" in a new augmented edition and for the first time on Blu-ray, on the occasion of the French playwright's 400th anniversary of birth!

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With 120 actors, 600 participants, 1300 costumes, 220 sets and after two years of work, this film tells the fascinating story of Molière, and of his century, in four hours. How did this young boy, born in 1622 to an upholsterer and a loving mother that he was to loose too soon, become the prodigious actor, and univerally acclaimed author so well, and yet so little known? From his childhood to his death, we follow Molière and his travelling companions, in their joy, misery and glory throughout a savage yet refined XVIIth century France, sharing their first theatrical adventures, their successes and failures, their valiant struggles and moments of cowardice.

This familiar and spectacular saga where the devout clash with the libertine, and famished peasents with wigged courtesans, is about the life of an honest man who exhausts himself in an unceasing struggle to practice his art in a century filled with repression and violent hypocrisy.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Behind the scenes in 1978 - Le film d'Ariane : spécial Molière (never published)
Interview with Ariane Mnouchkine in 2004
Interview with Ariane Mnouchkine in 2021 (never published)
Interview with Philippe Caubère in 2022 (never published)
Audio commentary by Ariane Mnouchkine