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.
Francis Girod
Director, Writer
Georges Conchon
Writer
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
Élisa63%
All Day and a Night62%
O.G.59%
Haute Couture61%
Banlieusards 360%
La joven69%
TalhotBlond63%
The Visit72%
Chaos63%
Mon frère65%
La Cage60%
Skin64%
Charm City Kings78%
Respire70%
Adopt a Highway66%
Lux Æterna60%
Le pacha67%
Salomé62%
Holy Lands61%
Strange Weather58%
