I, Pierre Rivière
Synopsis
On June 3, 1835, Pierre Rivière, a twenty-year-old farmer in Normandy, slit the throats of his mother, his sister Victoria, and his younger brother, Jules, with a billhook. He then fled and wandered for several weeks in the woods before being arrested. Shortly after being jailed, the murderer, whom most witnesses described as a strangely behaved young man, if not an idiot, began writing a dense memoir, an incredibily beautiful text, a veritable autobiography in which he outlined the reasons which drove him to commit his act: to deliver his father from his “sorrows and afflictions” that his wife had made him suffer from the first day of their marriage. A monstrous criminal or a “poor” madman? The debate would bring magistrates and psychiatrists into conflict for a long time.
Featuring non-professionals – found from among the farmers of the region – in most of the leading roles, René Allio has created a singular and powerful work that pieces together all the layers of this mystery.
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Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Les Films Arquebuse, Polsim Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Shellac
- French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producers : René Féret, Fanny Berchaux
- Screenwriters : Pascal Bonitzer, René Allio, Jean Jourdheuil, Serge Toubiana
- Director of photography : Nurith Aviv
- Assistant directors : Gérard Mordillat, Nicolas Philibert
- Editor : Sylvie Blanc
- Sound recordists : Pierre Gamet, Francis Bonfanti, Patrice Noïa
- Costume designer : Christine Laurent
- Author of original work : Michel Foucault
- Production Manager : Michelle Plaa
- Continuity supervisor : Marie-Hélène Quinton
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Jacques Dufour
- Still Photographer : Philippe Barrier
- Unit Production Manager : Bernard Bouix
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Historical
- Themes : Murder, Insanity, News story
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
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