A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Michael Lonsdale, Maxence Mailfort, Maurice Biraud
Written by:
Herman Melville
Jacques Quoirez
Yvan Bostel
Directed by:
Maurice Ronet
Release Date:
December 16, 1976
Original Title:
Bartleby
Genres:
Drama
Production Countries:
France | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U
Runtime: 97
Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
A bailiff runs a small office in central Paris. He supplemented the small staff by recruiting a new employee, Bartleby. This one proves its worth, then begins to refuse certain tasks. Then he lets himself die of hunger to mark his opposition to the world. This resistance generates more and more serious disturbances around him. Troubled, unable to fire him, the bailiff leaves the team and the study to wither away.
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