The Elegant Criminal
Lacenaire
Release: 1990-12-19
·Runtime: 125m
·★ 4.8
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.
Production Countries
France
Cast
Daniel Auteuil
as Pierre-François Lacenaire
Maïwenn
as Hermine
Michel Vocoret
as The big
Gérald Calderon
as May father
Henri Colpi
as The head of the prison
Rufus
as Canler
Marie-Armelle Deguy
as Princess Ida
Patrick Pineau
as Avril
Henri Lanoë
as The first mogul
Jacques Weber
as Jacques Arago
Jean-Michel Ribes
as Lebel
Jean Davy
as Alphonse Damoiseau
Jacques Duby
as Marmignat
Jean-Paul Muel
as Poulaillon
Aurélien Recoing
as François
François-Régis Bastide
as The superior
Claude Makovski
as General Counsel
Jean-Damien Barbin
as Baton
Jean Poiret
as Allard
François Périer
as Lacenaire's father
Geneviève Casile
as Lacenaire's mother
Paul Le Person
as Vigouroux
Gérard Desarthe
as Professor Tonnelier
Jacques Sereys
as Pertuizet
Samuel Labarthe
as The abbot of Lusignan
Jean-Pierre Miquel
as The president of the court
Daniel Mesguich
as Ida's husband
