Le Grand Meaulnes is a 2006

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 film directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, based on the classic novel

Le Grand Meaulnes

Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the...

 of the same name. The film premiered on October 4, 2006 in France

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Synopsis

The film begins on a night of November 1910. Mr Seurel, who manages a quiet country school in the Sologne

Sologne

Sologne , a region of north-central France extending over portions of the départements of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and Cher...

, provides accommodation to a boarder accompanying his mother: Augustin Meaulnes.

Meaulnes shares the bedroom of Seurel's son, with whom he strikes up a friendship.

Cast

• François Seurel: Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier , nicknamed JB or Jean-Bapt, is a French actor and singer famous for his role in the 2004 French film, Les Choristes.- Early life :...
  
  
• Augustin Meaulnes: Nicolas Duvauchelle
  Nicolas Duvauchelle
  Nicolas Duvauchelle is a French actor.-Biography:Duvauchelle starred in numerous movies including Lightweight, À tout de suite and Le Grand Meaulnes...
  
  
• Yvonne de Galais: Clémence Poésy
  Clémence Poésy
  Clémence Poésy is a French actress and fashion model. Since starting on the stage as a child, Poésy had dramatic education, and has been active on both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions...
  
  
• M. de Galais: Jean-Pierre Marielle
  Jean-Pierre Marielle
  Jean-Pierre Marielle is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred movies in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen , to the serial killer , to the World War II hero , to the compromised spy , to the has-been actor Jean-Pierre Marielle (born...
  
  
• M. Seurel: Philippe Torreton
  Philippe Torreton
  Philippe Torreton is a French actor.-Biography:Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and fireman father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city...
  
  
• Valentine: Émilie Dequenne
  Émilie Dequenne
  Émilie Dequenne is a French-speaking Belgian actress.-Biography:She won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta...
  
  
• Franz: Malik Zidi
  Malik Zidi
  Malik Zidi is a French film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four-time nominated and one time César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor.-Career:...
  
  
• Millie: Valérie Stroh
• Mme Meaulnes: Florence Thomassin
• Florentin: Pascal Elso
• l'horloger: Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1954. He was born in Annonay, Ardèche.-Selected filmography:* Pouic-Pouic * That Man from Rio * La Ligne de démarcation...
  
   (II)
• le recteur: Pierre Vernier
• Delouche: Charles Hurez
• Dutremblay: Clément Naslin
• Roy: Samuel Brafman