A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the stage of the Théâtre du Palais Royal in Paris. At a time when homosexuality was considered a crime by the law, Poiret and Serrault achieved great success in boulevard theater. Their success continued on the silver screen, with three Oscar nominations and a Broadway musical. Combining never-before-seen archives from the play, extracts from the film, confessions by Poiret and Serrault, and interviews with witnesses, this is the story of a wild epic.
Production
Unseen 1973 footage that shouldn't exist but miraculously does.
Writing
Poiret and Serrault's unfiltered archive interviews are devastatingly honest.
Director
Christophe Duchiron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 1973 stage production predates the Stonewall riots by four years, making it arguably the most commercially successful queer-coded entertainment created before modern gay liberation.
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