• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Period Film, Biography
• Themes: Writer's Life
• Director: Michel Drach
• Main Cast: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe
• Release Year: 1982
• Country: FR
• Run Time: 131 minutes

Plot

This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes on his life highlight important literary figures, his mother, his lesbian friend Gisele d'Estoc, and various other players. All seem to swirl together as the writer's mind is lost to madness and approaching death. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Claude Brasseur - Guy de Maupassant
• Jean Carmet - His valet
• Simone Signoret - His mother
• Miou-Miou - Gisele
• Anne-Marie Philipe - Countess Potocka

Veronique Genest - Fanny/Lady in grey; Daniel Gélin - Gustave de Maupassant; Catherine Frot - Mouche

Credit

Muriel Baurens - Makeup; Georges Delerue - Composer (Music Score); Michel Drach - Director; Michel Drach - Producer; Michel Drach - Screenwriter; Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko - Art Director; Philippe Rousselot - Cinematographer; Genevieve Winding - Editor; Philippe Madral - Screenwriter; Harald Maury - Sound/Sound Designer

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