Movie Description

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

(1968)

Overview

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

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Facts

Original TitleLe Bourgeois gentilhomme

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1968-12-28

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 02h 10m

Production CompaniesOffice de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

Genres

  • Comedy
  • TV Movie