Claudine Ancelot has once more for our pleasure opened her :

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So far the page THÉÂTRE had only the names of the plays our dear Claudine had performed. I had in vain searched for photos or facts. I am thrilled to present you now the material Claudine has generously offered to us. Thank you dear Claudine, for these fantastic photos of your career at the Theatre.

Mistral/Linda webmistress Novembre 2011
 


1988

BACCHUS
by Jean Cocteau





directed by
JEAN MARAIS



with :
Claudine Ancelot
as Christine, the Duke's daughter

Pierre-Marie Escourrou
alias Hans (Bacchus)

Jean Marais
alias the Duke (father of Christine)


 

 


 

SUMMARY
The plot
is located in Germany, in the year 1523, while the political-religious struggle
the engaged reformers, led by Luther. Hans (son of a peasant like Martin Luther) postulates that year under King Bacchus. For seven days, he holds absolute power over all administration and the powerful, in a town near the borders of Switzerland. His candidacy is supported by the Duke's daughter, Christine, who one day on manhunt, has taken pity (we soon can guess the true reason for her feelings) to the peasant, stalked and bullied as a beast, helpless by his fellow festivities, the son of nobles wishing to exercise their tyranny over the peasants.

Since then, Hans pretended to be the village idiot, and finds in this masquerade the only way to be a free man. On the eve of the feast of harvest, the grand jury meets to agree on the candidate for Bacchus. Thus, the Duke, the Bishop, the provost, the trustee and the Cardinal are willing to listen to the request of Christine, for
her "candidate" Hans puts on the dress of the King for seven days. The farmer, after passing the entrance examination, is assigned the role of his life. Hans calls for a good society, he empties the prisons, punishes merchants who charm the rich at the expense of the gullible and removes the tithe  he considers unfair. The masquerade of Bacchus is wrong yet ...

 


 




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