The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. Faced with two authoritarian fathers, two sons, both of whom are thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, who is driven by a mad desire for revenge. The character is a double of Scaramouche, the Italian actor of the adventurous life whom Molière admired: “to tell you the truth, there are few things that are impossible for me, when I put my mind to them” declares the buffoonish servant whose name, as Denis Podalydès points out, derives his from the Italian scappare which means “to escape”, “to scamper off”. Scapin is beaten with a stick at one point but also gets his own back and, against a background of ransom demands and paternal contradictions, he comes up with an avalanche of stratagems and other tricks, which Molière excels in depicting.

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new p...

Provincial atmosphere. The conflicts, customs and morals of a family of merchants from Craiova unwit...

An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to chang...

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...

July 14, 1962. It's the excitement at the famous cabaret "Le Glamour". The alluring singer Lola-Lola...

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance ...

Guglielmo Speranza is a young man who, having just graduated from university, decides to ask his bel...

Geronta Sebezio is revered by his fellow villagers for his miraculous ability to bring the dead back...

In Naples, where the modest clerk Michele Crispucci lives with his daughter Assuntina, his ex-wife a...

Paul, a 45-year-old businessman, is about to radically change his life ... He organized everything d...