Ridicule

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Ridicule

"Wit is the ultimate weapon."

1996

1h 42m

7.0(212 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Overview

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

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44 members

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Charles Berling

Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy

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Jean Rochefort

Le Marquis de Bellegarde

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Fanny Ardant

Madame de Blayac

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Judith Godrèche

Mathilde de Bellegarde

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Bernard Giraudeau

L'Abbée de Vilecourt

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Bernard Dhéran

Montalieri

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Carlo Brandt

Milletail

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Jacques Mathou

Abbé de l'Épée

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Urbain Cancelier

Louis XVI

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Albert Delpy

Baron de Guéret

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Bruno Zanardi

Paul

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Marie Pillet

Charlotte

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Jacques Roman

Chevernoy

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Philippe Magnan

Baron de Malenval

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Maurice Chevit

Le notaire

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Jacques François Zeller

Maurepas

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Sound

Gérard Hardy

Victor

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Marc Berman

Duc de Guines

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Philippe du Janerand

Le généalogiste

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Claude Dereppe

Mgr d'Artimont

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Isabelle Spade

Baronne de Boisjoli

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Isabelle Petit-Jacques

Baronne d'Oberkirchner

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Nathalie Mann

Comtesse de Blancfagot

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Étienne Draber

Vicomte du Closlabbe

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Fabrice Eberhard

Chevalier de St Tronchain

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Stéphane Fourmond

Marquis de Carmes

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Jean-Jacques Le Vessier

Vicomte de Sabran

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Lucien Pascal

Monsieur de Blayac

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Nicolas Chagrin

Lord Bolingbroke

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Fabien Béhar

Secrétaire du roi

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Mirabelle Kirkland

Marie-Antoinette

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Marie Llano

Mère de Léonard

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Antonin Lebas-Joly

Léonard

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Didier Abot

Le curé

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Julien Bukowski

Gentilhomme

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José Fumanal

L'Officier Duel

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Sylvie Herbert

Mère du Ponceludon

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Alain Hocine

Le joueur

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Clémentine Buxtorf

La soeur

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Boris Napes

Le peintre

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Gérard Sergue

Le voleur

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Laurent Valo

Simon

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Claire Garguier

Thérèse

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Marine Guez

La cantatrice

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