After rising to international stardom with such seminal crowd-pleasers as <i>The Lovers</i> and <i>Zazie dans le metro</i>, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with <i>The Fire Within (Le feu follet)</i>, a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (<i>Elevator To The Gallows</i>), 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, <i>The Fire Within</i> is one of Malle's darkest and most personal films.
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Catherine Demongeot | Zazie |
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Philippe Noiret | Oncle Gabriel |
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Hubert Deschamps | Turandot |
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Carla Marlier | Albertine |
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Annie Fratellini | Mado |
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Vittorio Caprioli | Trouscaillon |
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Jacques Dufilho | Ferdinand Gridoux |
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Yvonne Clech | Madame Mouaque |
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Odette Piquet | La mère de Zazie |
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Nicolas Bataille | Fédor |
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Antoine Roblot | Charles |
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Marc Doelnitz | M. Coquetti |
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Jacques Gheusi | Le gérant |
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Christine Howard | |
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Louis Lalanne | L'amant de Jeanne |
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Little Bara | Permanent |
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Georges Faye | Permanent |
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De Lannoy | Permanent |
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Paul Vally | Permanent |
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Jean-Yves Bouvier | Permanent |
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Jean-Pierre Posier | Permanent |
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Jeanne Allard | Permanent |
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Jacqueline Doyen | Permanent |
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Arlette Balkis | Permanent |
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Alegrina | Permanent |
| Director | Louis Malle |
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| Writer | Raymond Queneau, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau | |
| Producer | Jean-François Malle, Louis Malle, Napoléon Murat | |
| Musician | Fiorenzo Carpi, André Pontin | |
| Photography | Henri Raichi | |
| Edition | Criterion Blu-Ray Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | SUB [English] Mono [French] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Regions | Region A |