With 120 actors, 600 participants, 1300 costumes, 220 sets and after two years of work, Ariane Mnouchkine’s iconic movie tells in four hours the fascinating story of Molière, and of his century.

From his childhood to his death, we follow Molière and his travelling companions, in their joy, misery and glory throughout a savage yet refined 17th-century France, sharing their first theatrical adventures, their successes and their failures.

This familiar and spectacular saga where the devout clash with the libertine, peasants with courtesans, is about the life of an honest man who exhausts himself in an unceasing struggle to practice his art in a century filled with repression and violent hypocrisy.

Brilliant, funny, dramatic, it is an absolute classic of French cinema.

- A film by Théâtre du Soleil and Ariane Mnouchkine
- Over 60,000 copies sold since the first DVD edition
- Collector re-issue on DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth (1622)

- Film restored in 4K by Eclair
- Collector re-issue with an illustrated booklet and unpublished texts
- Exclusive special features: interviews with Ariane Mnouchkine (2004 & 2021) and Philippe Caubère (2022), making-of filmed at La Cartoucherie (archives INA 1978), director’s commentary...

Written and directed by Ariane Mnouchkine
Sets: Guy-Claude François
Photography: Bernard Zitzermann