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Lacenaire (1990) is a French movie. Francis Girod has directed this movie. Daniel Auteuil,Jean Poiret,Jacques Weber,François Périer are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1990. Lacenaire (1990) is considered one of the best Biography,Drama movie in India and around the world.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.