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.

• Philippe Caubère
• Marie-Françoise Audollent
• Frédéric Ladonne
• Jean Dasté
• Roger Planchon
• Daniel Mesguich
• Albert Delpy
• Odile Cointepas