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
- André Gide as Self
- Roland Alexandre as Self
- Jean-Louis Barrault as Self
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as Self (archive footage)
- Jean Desailly as Narrator (voice)
- Renée Faure as Self
- Maurice Garçon as Self
- Pierre Herbart as Self
- Roger Martin Du Gard as Self
- Annik Morice as Self