Ce diable d'homme - Season 1 Episode 4
Barred from Versailles, Voltaire has only one refuge left: Potsdam, where Frederick II invites him. He goes there, resolved to end his days at the sovereign’s court, and is welcomed with great honors. But things soon sour: Voltaire grumbles, demands favors, blunders repeatedly, speculates on currency, and attacks Maupertuis, one of Frederick’s protégés. He falls into disgrace. When he finally receives permission to leave Prussia, he takes Frederick’s mediocre poems to publish them and take revenge by making Europe laugh. Caught, he escapes, is seized again, imprisoned, and threatened with death. He eventually returns the poems and settles in Switzerland, far from tyrants. Barely has he arrived when news of the Lisbon earthquake spreads. The fanatically Catholic capital is destroyed. The catastrophe inspires his Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, the fiercest of his masterpieces.
Year: 1978
Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama, Documentary
Country: France
Studio: TF1
Director: Marcel Camus
Cast: Michel Herbault, Gérard Caillaud, Jean Turlier, Roger Carel, Jean Mourat, Nicole Garcia
Crew: Marcel Camus (Director), Claude Brulé (Scenario Writer), Claude Brulé (Novel), Jacques Loussier (Music), Sylvie Poulet (Costume Design), Robert Giordani (Decorator)
First Air Date: May 04, 1978
Last Air date: Jun 08, 1978
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 1.1384
Language: French
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