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Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau’s immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stéphane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe) close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their lair—until romance and jealousy intrude. Melville’s operatic camera movements and Cocteau’s perverse, poetic approach to character merge in Les enfants terribles to create one of French cinema's greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds.
Original Release
03/29/1950
US Release
07/28/1952
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Nicole Stéphane | Elisabeth |
Edouard Dermithe | Paul |
Renée Cosima | Agathe / Dargelos |
Jacques Bernard | Gerard |
Melvyn Martin | Michael |
Maria Cyliakus | The Mother |
Jean-Marie Robain | Headmaster |
Maurice Revel | Doctor |
Rachel Devirys | |
Adeline Aucoc | Mariette |
Directors
Writers
Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Name | Character |
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Nicole Stéphane | Elisabeth |
Edouard Dermithe | Paul |
Renée Cosima | Agathe / Dargelos |
Jacques Bernard | Gerard |
Melvyn Martin | Michael |
Maria Cyliakus | The Mother |
Jean-Marie Robain | Headmaster |
Maurice Revel | Doctor |
Rachel Devirys | |
Adeline Aucoc | Mariette |
Emile Mathys | Vice Principal |
Roger Gaillard | Gerard's Uncle |
Annabel Buffet | Le mannequin |
Karin Lannby | The Mother |
Helene Remy | |
Jean Cocteau | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Tom Mannion | Young schoolboy (Extra) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jean-Pierre Melville | Producer |