Le bourgeois gentilhomme 1968

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Cast:

Michel Serrault
M. Jourdain 

Rosy Varte
Mme Jourdain 

Daniel Ceccaldi
Dorante 

Jean-Pierre Darras
Le maître de ballet 

Roger Carel
Le maître de musique 

Henri Virlogeux
Le maître de philosophie 

• Would-Be Gentleman