Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
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Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed with the… More Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed with the confidence of the ignorant, Candide is abused by practically everyone he comes across (he has a particularly rough time in a German POW camp), but somehow emerges with his faith in humanity unscathed. His picaresque adventures take him all the way to the Americas, both North and South. Just as in most stage versions of Candide, some of the supporting actors play double and triple roles: Robert Manuel, for example, portrays all the German officers Candide meets. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Norbert Carbonnaux
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
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Cast
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Pierre Brasseur
as Pangloss
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Daliah Lavi
as Cunegonde
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Michel Simon
as Nanar
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Candide
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Nadia Gray
as Dame
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Louis de Funès
as Gestapo Officer
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Jean Tissier
as Dr. Jacques
- Mathilde Casadesus
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Jacqueline Maillan
as American Mother
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Robert Manuel
as All German Officers
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Darío Moreno
as South American Dictator
- Jean Poiret
- Michel Serrault
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Albert Simonin
as Major Simpson
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Jean Richard
as Black Marketeer
- Luis Mariano
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Jean Constantin
as Fourak
- Tino Rossi
