Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestBetween 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.
Acting
Jean Yanne's domineering patriarch steals every scene.
Production
Belle Époque detail so lush you can smell the furniture polish.
Jean Yanne
Oscar Thibault
Jean-Pierre Lorit
Antoine Thibault
Malik Zidi
Jacques Thibault
Florence Pernel
Thérèse de Fontanin
Didier Bezace
Jérôme de Fontanin
Julie Delarme
Jenny de Fontanin
Clément Sibony
Daniel de Fontanin
Amira Casar
Rachel
Estelle Vincent
Gise
Nadia Barentin
Mademoiselle de Waize
Pierre Vernier
Abbé Vecard
Jacques Spiesser
Docteur Hequet
Adélaïde Bon
Nicole
Hubert Saint-Macary
Professeur Philip
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Roger Martin du Gard's 1922 Nobel Prize-winning novel cycle, which took him 18 years to complete.
Director Verhaeghe previously adapted Proust; this shares that same obsession with time's erosion of aristocratic certainty.
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