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A Curtain Call for Moliere: 1: The Curtain Rises

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A romantic serial in six parts

Where the young stage-struck son of a royal furniture-maker runs away from Paris to join Madeleine, a beautiful touring actress, and becomes an actor himself. He adopts the name of 'Moliere' and forms, with a few young companions, 'The Illustrious Theatre' and sets out for the open road ...

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Contributors

Writer/Adapter/Dialogue by:
Claude Brule
Director:
Marcel Camus
Music By:
Georges Delerue
Young Moliere:
Roger Mirmont
Madeleine:
Marianne Comtell
Monsieur Poquelin, Moliere's father:
Louis Seigner
Madame Bejart:
Alice Sapritch
Pierre Corneille:
Andre Reybaz
Genevieve Bejart:
Maud Rayer
Source: Radio Times

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