Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine.

It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.

[2] Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little.

He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.

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