The Libertine (2000)
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- Not Rated
- 1h 40min
- Comedy, History
- 15 Mar 2000 (Belgium)
- Movie
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Cast
Vincent Perez | ... |
Denis Diderot
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Fanny Ardant | ... |
Madame Therbouche
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Josiane Balasko | ... |
La Baronne d'Holbach
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Michel Serrault | ... |
Le Cardinal
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Arielle Dombasle | ... |
La Marquise de Jerfeuil
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Christian Charmetant | ... |
Le Marquis (Chevalier) de Jerfeuil
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Françoise Lépine | ... |
Madame Diderot
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François Lalande | ... |
Le Baron d'Holbach
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Bruno Todeschini | ... |
Le Marquis de Cambrol
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Arnaud Lemaire | ... |
Le Marquis de Lutz
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Audrey Tautou | ... |
Julie d'Holbach
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Vahina Giocante | ... |
Angélique Diderot
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Yan Duffas | ... |
Abraham
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Véronique Vella | ... |
La Cousine de Jerfeuil
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Eric Savin | ... |
Le Chef de la police
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Thierry Nzeutem | ... |
Mohamed
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Kevin Felix-Lassa | ... |
Le fils Jerfeuil
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Jean Pommier | ... |
Le domestique FA#
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Eric Barthes | ... |
Cocher de Madame Therbouche
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Gaëlle Vincent | ... |
Première domestique turque
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Micheline Massin | ... |
Deuxième domestique turque
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Directed by
Gabriel Aghion |
Written by
Gabriel Aghion | ... | () |
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | ... | (dialogue) |
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | ... | (play) |
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
Raphaël Cohen | ... | executive producer |
Gaspard de Chavagnac | ... | delegate producer |
Pascal Houzelot | ... | associate producer |
Music by
Bruno Coulais |
Cinematography by
Jean-Marie Dreujou |
Editing by
Luc Barnier |
Casting By
Gérard Moulévrier |
Production Design by
Dan Weil |
Set Decoration by
Alexandrine Mauvezin-Bosque | ... | (as Alexandrine Mauvezin) |
Costume Design by
Olivier Bériot |
Makeup Department
Jacques Clemente | ... | makeup supervisor |
Pascal Ferrero | ... | key hair stylist |
Jocelyne Lemery | ... | key makeup artist |
Agathe Moro | ... | key hair stylist |
Lydia Pujols | ... | key makeup artist |
Jean-Christophe Roger | ... | key makeup artist |
Production Management
Philippe Dumas | ... | unit manager |
Patrick Lancelot | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pascale Berlin-Salmon | ... | second assistant director (as Pasquale Berlin) |
Yann Cuinet | ... | second second assistant director |
Marie Rolindes | ... | trainee assistant director |
Thomas Tréfouel | ... | first assistant director |
Art Department
Florian Sanson | ... | assistant art director |
Roland Stevenson | ... | head propmaker |
Gilles Ségurel | ... | property master |
Sound Department
Vincent Arnardi | ... | re-recording mixer |
Jean-Pierre Lelong | ... | sound effects editor |
Guillaume Leriche | ... | re-recording mixer |
Cécile Ranc | ... | sound editor |
Brigitte Taillandier | ... | sound |
Jacques Thomas-Gérard | ... | sound mixer |
Special Effects by
Joyce Menger | ... | special effects director |
Christophe Messaoudi | ... | special effects |
Visual Effects by
Frederic Moreau | ... | visual effects |
Stunts
Patrice Cossonneau | ... | stunts |
Camera and Electrical Department
Eric Bonnaire | ... | grip |
Arnaud Borrel | ... | still photographer |
Renaud Chassaing | ... | assistant camera |
Arnaud Delannoy | ... | assistant camera |
Hervé Denis | ... | electrician |
Germain Desmoulins | ... | camera operator |
Jean-Marc Duez | ... | grip |
Dominique Gonnin | ... | grip |
Kareem La Vaullée | ... | steadicam operator |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lorenzo Mancianti | ... | key props costume |
Music Department
Emmanuel Deletang | ... | music consultant |
Michel Larmand | ... | music supervisor |
Script and Continuity Department
Suzanne Durrenberger | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Laure Darie | ... | production secretary |
François Hardy | ... | carriages |
Corinne Saglio | ... | assistant production accountant |
Pascal Tréguy | ... | animal trainer |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Cinema Mondo (2000) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Pathé (France)
- Yleisradio (YLE) (2006) (Finland) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
Storyline
Plot Summary |
The 'philosopher' (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot is part of an aristocratic circle which practices the libertarian principles on the rural castle estate of the baron of Holbach, and prints their forbidden publication, the Encyclopédie, drowning the noise of the presses in Jewish assistant Abraham's organ playing. Then arrives Madame Therbouche, a flirtatious painter, from the Prussian metropolis Berlin, and convinces Diderot to pose for her more daring then his idol fellow-philosopher Voltaire in Berlin: in the nude, leading to an animated row with his wife Antoinette, still naked except for a very unsteady sheet, all over the estate's park. Worse, the saucy scene is witnessed by a feared visitor, Holbach's brother the Cardinal, who is hunting for the illegal Encyclopaedia printers; to divert him, the baroness confesses her real and imagined sins since years and next sends in every female to do the same, later joined spontaneously by chevalier (marquis in the end credits) de Jerfeuil, who got a livelier show the he bargained for when accepting to be shown two inseparable marquis's 'sabre collection' which proves not of the military variety. The baroness also treats her guests to (then) most exotic foods and naughty pictures, yet even for her the freedman Turkish hamam eunuch Mohamed takes hospitality for female guests too far into intimate massage to their taste. His personal experience keeps changing Diderot's ideas, and therefore the article he is writing on 'morale' (morality). Secrets end up getting out, both the portraitist's true agenda and what goes on in the chapel, which the Cardinal finally gets into to 'recollect himself' after hearing so many unsettling lustful sins... Written by KGF Vissers |
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