With André Gide

Marc Allégret
1952-02-22


1
85 min

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

Name Character Team
André Gide Self Unowned
Roland Alexandre Self Unowned
Jean-Louis Barrault Self Unowned
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jean Desailly Narrator (voice) Unowned
Renée Faure Self Unowned
Maurice Garçon Self Unowned
Pierre Herbart Self Unowned
Roger Martin Du Gard Self Unowned
Annik Morice Self Unowned
Gérard Philipe Narrator (voice) Unowned
Jean-Paul Sartre Self (scenes deleted) Unowned
Jean Schlumberger Self Unowned
Roger Vadim Self Unowned
Paul Valéry Self Unowned