With André Gide

With André Gide — Plot

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the film was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.

• Release date
• February 22, 1952
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Marc Allégret

With André Gide — Cast

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André Gide Self Roland Alexandre Self Jean-Louis Barrault Self Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Self (archive footage) Jean Desailly Narrator (voice) Renée Faure Self

M

Maurice Garçon Self

P

Pierre Herbart Self