Dumas (film)
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Director Safy Nebbou Duration Cinematography Stephane Fontaine Language French | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, History Running time 1h 45m Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 10 February 2010 (2010-02-10) Writer Cyril Gely (play), Safy Nebbou (screenplay), Eric Rouquette (play), Gilles Taurand (screenplay) Genres Biographical film, Comedy-drama, Drama film Cast Gérard Depardieu (Alexandre Dumas), Mélanie Thierry (Charlotte Desrives), Dominique Blanc (Celeste Scriwaneck), Catherine Mouchet (Caroline Maquet), Michel Duchaussoy (Sous Préfet Crémieux), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (Monsieur Bocquin)Similar movies Alexandre Dumas movies, Gerard Depardieu movies, Biographies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dumas (original title: L'Autre Dumas) is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou about 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas.
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Plot
February 1848. Alexandre Dumas (Gérard Depardieu) is at the height of his fame. He has withdrawn for a few days into the immense Château de Monte-Cristo near Le Port-Marly, that he is building. There he works with his collaborator, Auguste Maquet, (Benoît Poelvoorde). If the books bear Dumas' name, the tiring work undertaken by Maquet is colossal. Nevertheless, for ten years, Maquet has remained in the great man's shadow and never challenged his supremacy. When a quarrel breaks out between the two men, after Maquet passes himself off as Dumas in order to seduce Charlotte (Mélanie Thierry), - a crucial question presents itself: what is the exact part each man has in the work's success. Who is the father of d'Artagnan, and of Monte Cristo? In short, who is really the author? Their relationship, so peaceful until this point is placed in doubt and topples over into confrontation. And not far away, in Paris, a revolution is building which will seal the fate of another relationship—that of Louis-Philippe— with the people of France.
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Reception
The Council of Black Associations of France criticized the decision to cast the white actor Gérard Depardieu to play the part of Dumas, who "was the grandson of a Haitian slave and often referred to himself as a negro."