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Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
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L'Avare
1974 2h 30m FR
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8.0
BANGER
★8.0TMDB · 1
ComedyDramaRomance
Synopsis
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Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Michel Aumont
Harpagon
Simon Eine
Valère
Francis Huster
Cléante
Françoise Seigner
Frosine
Isabelle Adjani
Marianne
Jacques Eyser
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Ludmila Mikaël
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- René Lucot
- Languages
- French
- Countries
- France
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The take
René Lucot directs. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
- 252 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Michel Aumont and Simon Eine and Francis Huster carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0254153 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 150 min · 2h 30m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
- IMDB
- L'Avare (1974)
Also by
René Lucot
Production companies
Who made it
- LA
La Comédie-Française
FR
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- TV1974-01-01
