

85 minutes
4/29/2002
Drama chronicling the premiere of Victor Hugo's 1830 drama Hernani, and the dramatic Romantics that rallied around it.

Alexandre Brasseur
as Victor Hugo

Arielle Dombasle
as Mademoiselle Mars

Florence Darel
as Adèle Hugo

Jacques Dacqmine
as King Charles X
Fabrice Pruvost
as Firmin

Nicolas Vaude
as Favre

Mathias Marechal
as Gérard de Nerval

Bernard Fresson
as Victor Hugo (old)

Pierre Vernier
as Baron Taylor
Fabrice Bénard
as Alexandre Dumas

Bernard Haller
as Classicist Playwright

Delphine Zentout
as Young Actress
David Assaraf
as Philothée O'Neddy

Claude Laugier
as Joanny

Nicolas Marié
as Michelor
Samuel Suter
as Charles Sainte-Beuve

Matthieu Tribes
as Théophile Gautier

Max Boublil
as Petrus Borel
Alexandre Zloto
as Horn Guy

Jean-Pierre Coffe
as Bewigged Theatergoer
Yves Dutheil
as Complaining Theatergoer

Pascal Germain
as Director
Patrice Jean Michon
as Mame
Marcel Dessogne
as Tailor
Camille Verhaeghe
as Grisette

Laurence Mercier
as Josepha