Would-Be Gentleman

1968Directed by Pierre Badel

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Released: December 28, 1968
Runtime: 2h 10m

About Would-Be Gentleman

Comedy
TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Director: Pierre Badel
Writer: Molière
Original title: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Principal cast

In billing order

Michel SerraultM. Jourdain
Rosy VarteMme Jourdain
Daniel CeccaldiDorante
Jean-Pierre DarrasLe maître de ballet
Roger CarelLe maître de musique
Henri VirlogeuxLe maître de philosophie

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