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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. Unsparing in its portrait of Alain’s inner turmoil and shot with remarkable clarity, The Fire Within is one of Malle's darkest and most personal films.
Original Release
10/15/1963
US Release
02/17/1964
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Maurice Ronet | Alain Leroy |
Léna Skerla | Lydia |
Yvonne Clech | Mademoiselle Farnoux |
Hubert Deschamps | D'Averseau |
Jean-Paul Moulinot | Dr. La Barbinais |
Mona Dol | Madame La Barbinais |
Pierre Moncorbier | Moraine |
René Dupuy | Charlie (as René Dupuis) / Charlie |
Bernard Tiphaine | Milou |
Bernard Noël | Dubourg |
Directors
Writers
Louis Malle, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Cast
Name | Character |
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Maurice Ronet | Alain Leroy |
Léna Skerla | Lydia |
Yvonne Clech | Mademoiselle Farnoux |
Hubert Deschamps | D'Averseau |
Jean-Paul Moulinot | Dr. La Barbinais |
Mona Dol | Madame La Barbinais |
Pierre Moncorbier | Moraine |
René Dupuy | Charlie (as René Dupuis) / Charlie |
Bernard Tiphaine | Milou |
Bernard Noël | Dubourg |
Ursula Kubler | Fanny |
Jeanne Moreau | Eva |
Alain Mottet | Urcel |
François Gragnon | François Minville |
Romain Bouteille | Jérôme Minville / Jerome Minville |
Jacques Sereys | Cyrille Lavaud |
Alexandra Stewart | Solange |
Tony Taffin | Brancion |
Henri Serre | Frédéric |
France Arnel | Bit part |