Violette

A Martin PROVOST film

With :

Emmanuelle Devos (Violette Leduc), Sandrine Kiberlain (Simone de Beauvoir), Olivier Gourmet (Jacques Guérin), Catherine Hiegel (Berthe Leduc), Jacques Bonnaffé (Jean Genet), Olivier Py (Maurice Sachs), Nathalie Richard (Hermine)

Storyline :

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, relationship based on the quest for freedom by writing to Violet and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.

Scenario :

Martin Provost, Marc Abdelnour and René de Ceccatty

Production :

TS Productions

Release date :

2013

Nationality :

France, Belgium

Type of movie :

Feature film