Lacenaire (1990)

Réalisation : Francis Girod Scénario de : Georges Conchon & Francis Girod Compositeur : Laurent Petitgirard Directeur de la photographie : David de Keyser Costumière : Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle Monteur : Geneviève Winding Chef décorateur : Jacques Bufnoir Durée: 2h 05mn

Résumé : Evocation de la vie, du procès et de la mort de Lacenaire, célèbre bandit et homme de lettres du XIXe siecle immortalise par Prevert et Carné dans "les Enfants du paradis" et à qui l'on doit, a travers ses Mémoires, un témoignage et une appréciation particulièrement modernes sur son temps.

Résumé IMDB [En] : On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.