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1788

7.5 0 mins History   Drama   1978
Director(s): Maurice Failevic

Release Date: 23 Thu, Mar 1978

The story of a small village in Touraine between 1788 and 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, with its lord, its wealthy peasants, and its poor. The wealthy peasants, expelled from the communal pastures by the count, take him to court. Guillaume Coquard joins the other villagers in drafting the cahiers de doléances (lists of grievances). On the eve of the convocation of the Estates General, the village loses its lawsuit. On the night of August 4, 1789, the deputies vote to abolish privileges. The peasants will be able to buy them back. But the poorest wonder: with what?

Casts of 1788

Georges Goubert

as Joseph Coquard

Richard Fontana

as Guillaume Coquard

René Camoin

as Le comte

Aline Bertrand

as Clémence Coquard

Jacques Mathou

as Renaud Martin

Micheline Muc

as Rosine Martin

Jean Puyberneau

as Le juge

Gaëtan Jor

as Le curé

Jean-Louis Le Goff

as Maître Tessier

Jean-Pierre Bagot

as Nicolas Martineau

Jean Soustre

as Antoine Pages

Gérard Desarthe

as Le colporteur

Yvon Sarray

as René Lenfant

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