Molière(1978)

movie - first aired/released 1978-08-30 - audience 6.1

Directed by Ariane Mnouchkine

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.