La mort de Molière

La mort de Molière

47 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | Jan. 17, 1994

A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."

La mort de Molière

47 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | Jan. 17, 1994

La mort de Molière
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."
Producers La Sept-Arte, France Supervison, Ina
Original title La mort de Molière
Directors Robert Wilson
Writers Jan Linders, Robert Wilson, Philippe Chemin

Cast

Robert Wilson

as Molière

Bulle Ogier

as Madeleine Béjart

Laurence Mercier

as La Reine

Hervé Ruet

as Racine

Christian Ruché

as Le Roi

Cléonas Shannon

as Armande