Would-Be Gentleman
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
- Year : 1968
- Country : France
- Genre : Comedy, TV Movie
- Studio : Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
- Keyword : marriage proposal, france, diamond, music teacher, bourgeoisie, ignorance, count, based on play or musical, maid, love affair, parasite, nobility, dance teacher, 17th century, ottoman empire
- Director : Pierre Badel
- Cast : Michel Serrault, Rosy Varte, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Roger Carel, Henri Virlogeux