The Elegant Criminal 1990
On 9 January 1836 the condemned murderer‑thief Pierre Lacenaire faces the guillotine. While awaiting death he confides his memoir to Inspector Allard, begging him to protect Hermine, the young woman he has cared for a decade. Flashbacks—from the prison, Allard’s study, and later readers—show Lacenaire’s bullied childhood, early thefts, first murder, brief army stint, seduction of a princess, and a tragic affair with the young man Avril, who dies beside him.
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Aurélien Recoing
François
Daniel Auteuil
Pierre-François Lacenaire
François Périer
Lacenaire's father
Jacques Weber
Jacques Arago
Daniel Mesguich
Ida's husband
Samuel Labarthe
The abbot of Lusignan
Claude Makovski
General Counsel
Patrick Pineau
Avril
Maïwenn
Hermine
Rufus
Canler
Henri Lanoë
The first mogul
Jean-Paul Muel
Poulaillon
Marie-Armelle Deguy
Princess Ida
Geneviève Casile
Lacenaire's mother
Jacques Sereys
Pertuizet
Jacques Duby
Marmignat
Paul Le Person
Vigouroux
Jean Poiret
Allard
Jean Davy
Alphonse Damoiseau
Jean-Damien Barbin
Baton
Gérard Desarthe
Professor Tonnelier
Jean-Pierre Miquel
The president of the court
Yves Dangerfield
Doctor Brianchon
François-Régis Bastide
The superior
Maurice Bernart
Lambolley
Michel Vocoret
The big
Gérald Calderon
May father
Jean-Luc Douin
The prison priest
Henri Colpi
The head of the prison
Bertrand Van Effenterre
Degroot
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