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.
Directed by Marc Allégret
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Cast
André Gide
Self
Roland Alexandre
Self
Jean-Louis Barrault
Self
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Self (archive footage)
Jean Desailly
Narrator (voice)
Renée Faure
Self
Maurice Garçon
Self
Pierre Herbart
Self
Roger Martin Du Gard
Self
Annik Morice
Self
Gérard Philipe
Narrator (voice)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Self (scenes deleted)
Jean Schlumberger
Self
Roger Vadim
Self
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