The Les Enfants terribles
Synopsis
After their mother's death, Élisabeth and Paul, orphan brother and sister left to their own devices and bound to each other by an exclusive love, live together in their large Parisian apartment. They invent an imaginary universe governed by cryptic symbols. Their bedroom is a sanctuary where a "treasure," embued with a meaning that only the siblings understand, has pride of place. Élisabeth encounters Michael and marries him. But the following day he dies during an accident before the couple's marriage is consummated. Élisabeth inherits Michael's fortune, including a huge town house where Paul comes to join her with their precious treasure. Gérard, a friend of Paul, and his friend Agathe, who strangely resembles Dargelos (a teenage student who Paul idolizes), soon come to live with Élisabeth and Paul. But when Élisabeth realizes that love is growing between her brother and Agathe, like a Greek divinity, a kind of Fate, she weaves a Machiavellian web so that her brother cannot escape her.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Melville Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Cinexport
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Pierre Melville
- Screenwriters : Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Melville
- Dialogue Writer : Jean Cocteau
- Director of Photography : Henri Decaë
- Music Composer : Giuseppe Torelli
- Assistant directors : Claude Pinoteau, Serge Bourguignon, Michel Drach, Jacques Guymont
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Gallois
- Costume designer : Christian Dior
- Author of original work : Jean Cocteau
- Voice-over : Jean Cocteau
- Sound Assistant : Maurice Dagonneau
- Assistant editors : Colette Charbonneau, Claude Durand
- Production Designers : Jean-Pierre Melville, Emile Mathys
- Make-up Artist : Hagop Arakelian
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Carrère
- Narrator : Jean Cocteau
- Music Director : Paul Bonneau
- Still Photographer : André Dino
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Literary adaptation
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1949
- French release : 29/03/1950
- Runtime : 1 h 47 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 9473
- Visa issue date : 24/03/1950
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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