Director: Laurent Tirard (2007)
Paris,1644: 22–year–old Jean–Baptiste Poquelin is not yet the writer recognised by history as Moliere, the father and master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor. Awash in debt and pursued by [...]