With André Gide (1952)

3.0/10 • 85 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Roland Alexandre

Jean-Louis Barrault

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Self (archive footage)

Jean Desailly

Narrator (voice)

Renée Faure

Self

Gérard Philipe

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Self (scenes deleted)

Roger Vadim

Paul Valéry

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