Sensual, facetious, satirical and mocking, François Rabelais born at the end of the 15th century, alone embodies the Middle Ages, this fertile era from which the modern world emerged, and the spirit of research, of intellectual fever of the Renaissance, its enthusiasms and its aspirations.
Director: Hervé Baslé
Cast: Hervé Briaux, Jacques Boudet, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Aumont, Marcel Bozonnet, Olivier Broche, Éric Elmosnino, Anne Azoulay
Sensual, facetious, satirical and mocking, François Rabelais born at the end of the 15th century, alone embodies the Middle Ages, this fertile era from which the modern world emerged, and the spirit of research, of intellectual fever of the Renaissance, its enthusiasms and its aspirations.
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Sensual, facetious, satirical and mocking, François Rabelais born at the end of the 15th century, alone embodies the Middle Ages, this fertile era from which the modern world emerged, and the spirit o…
3h 12m
July 8, 2011
Hervé Baslé
Hervé Briaux, Jacques Boudet, Bernadette Lafont
History, TV Movie