Directed by:
Louis MalleCinematography:
Ghislain CloquetCast:
Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Henri Serre, Micha Bayard, Alain Mottet, Jacques Sereys (more)VOD (2)
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After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Maurice Ronet
France
Best movies:
Purple Noon (1960)
The Fire Within (1963)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
Léna Skerla
Best movies:
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
The Fire Within (1963)
Jeanne Moreau
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Back to the Wall (1958)
Alexandra Stewart
Canada
Best movies:
Day for Night (1973)
Bunker (2011)
Bolero (1981)
Yvonne Clech
France
Best movies:
The Fire Within (1963)
Men Think Only of That (1954)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
Hubert Deschamps
France
Best movies:
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
The Spies (1957)
Dear Inspector (1978)
Henri Serre
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
Micha Bayard
France
Best movies:
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
The Brain (1969)
Alain Mottet
France
Best movies:
Army of Shadows (1969)
The Fire Within (1963)
My New Partner at the Races (1990)
Jacques Sereys
France
Best movies:
I... For Icarus (1979)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
The Fire Within (1963)
Jean-Paul Moulinot
France
Best movies:
Mado (1976)
To Die of Love (1971)
The Fire Within (1963)
Darling Légitimus
Martinique
Best movies:
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Fire Within (1963)
The Crucible (1957)
Tony Taffin
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
The Fire Within (1963)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Ursula Kubler
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Fire Within (1963)
Vie privée (1962)
Only the French Can (1955)
Pierre Moncorbier
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
The Confession (1970)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Romain Bouteille
France
Best movies:
The Tenant (1976)
The Fire Within (1963)
The Scent of Mandarin (2015)
Mona Dol
France
Best movies:
The Fire Within (1963)
Le Joueur (1958)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)
Bernard Noël
France
Best movies:
The Fire Within (1963)
The Married Woman (1964)
Leathernose (1951)
Bernard Tiphaine
France
Best movies:
The Little Prince (2015)
The Fire Within (1963)
La Situation est grave... mais pas désespérée (1976)
Michèle Mahaut
Best movies:
The Fire Within (1963)