85 minutes
2/22/1952
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the film was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.
André Gide
as Self
Roland Alexandre
as Self
Jean-Louis Barrault
as Self
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Desailly
as Narrator (voice)
Renée Faure
as Self
Maurice Garçon
as Self
Pierre Herbart
as Self
Roger Martin Du Gard
as Self
Annik Morice
as Self
Gérard Philipe
as Narrator (voice)
Jean-Paul Sartre
as Self (scenes deleted)
Jean Schlumberger
as Self
Roger Vadim
as Self
Paul Valéry
as Self