Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999)
Balzac (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gérard Depardieu	...	Honoré de Balzac
	Jeanne Moreau	...	Charlotte-Laure
	Fanny Ardant	...	Eve Hanska
	Virna Lisi	...	Madame de Berny
	Katja Riemann	...	Laure d'Abrantès
	Claude Rich	...	Maitre Plissoud
	Gert Voss	...	Victor Hugo
	Sergio Rubini	...	Eugene Sue
	François Marthouret	...	Docteur Nacquart
	Marianne Denicourt	...	Adèle Hugo
	Gottfried John	...	Count Hanska
	Pascal Vannson	...	Paradis
	Hervé Briaux	...	Charles Sedillot
	Didier Lesour	...	Surveillant Bossu
	Enguerran Demeulenaere	...	Balzac Enfant

Storyline

Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however - even though his dissolute lifestyle keeps landing him in trouble with his creditors. To finally gain acclaim for his works and to earn enough money to survive, Balzac works like a man possessed, day and night, to the brink of exhaustion, drinking liter upon liter of coffee to keep himself awake. The passionate author also tends to go to excess in affairs of the heart - he has several woman friends at the same time, all of them very different from each other. They include the kind, caring and elderly Madame de Berny, and the egotistical, ambitious Laure d'Abrantès, who introduces Balzac to the salons of upper-class society... Written by Anonymous  

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