Would-Be Gentleman
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
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Michel Serrault
M. Jourdain
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Rosy Varte
Mme Jourdain
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Daniel Ceccaldi
Dorante
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Jean-Pierre Darras
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Roger Carel
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Jacques Legras
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Michel Creton
Covielle
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Ménage
Georges Audoubert
Le maître d'armes
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Annick Blancheteau
Lucile
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René Bouloc
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Lacombe, Lucien
Xavier Depraz
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Pierre Badel Director · Molière Author Louis Miaille Cinematographer
First release December 28, 1968 · Produced in France · Original title Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
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ORTF
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France
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Original title
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · December 28, 1968
TV · 2e chaine de l'ORTF
No release date listed for United States.
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