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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Michel SerraultM. Jourdain
Rosy VarteMme Jourdain
Daniel CeccaldiDorante
Jean-Pierre DarrasLe maître de ballet
Roger CarelLe maître de musique
Henri VirlogeuxLe maître de philosophie
Jacques LegrasLe maître-tailleur
Michel CretonCovielle
Georges AudoubertLe maître d'armes
Annick BlancheteauLucile
René BoulocLe premier laquais
Xavier DeprazLe Grand TurcExplore the crew
- Director
- Pierre Badel
- Director of Photography
- Louis Miaille
- Editor
- Andrée Lemaire