Dumas (film)

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2010 French film

Dumas

Film poster

L'Autre Dumas
Directed by| Safy Nebbou
Screenplay by|

* Gilles Taurand
* Safy Nebbou

Based on| the play Signé Dumas
by Cyril Gély and Eric Rouquette
Produced by|

* Frank Le Wita
* Marc de Bayser

Starring|

* Gérard Depardieu
* Benoît Poelvoorde

Cinematography| Stéphane Fontaine
Edited by| Bernard Sasia
Music by| Hugues Tabar-Nouval
Distributed by| UGC Distribution

Release date

* 10 February 2010 (2010-02-10)

Running time

| 105 minutes
Country| France
Language| French
Budget| €9.6 million[1]
Box office| $1.6 million[1]

Dumas (original title: L'Autre Dumas) is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou about 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas.

## Plot

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In February 1848, Alexandre Dumas (Gérard Depardieu) is at the height of his fame. He has withdrawn for a few days into the immense Château de Monte-Cristo near Le Port-Marly, that he is building. There he works with his collaborator, Auguste Maquet (Benoît Poelvoorde). If the books bear Dumas' name, the tiring work undertaken by Maquet is colossal. Nevertheless, for ten years, Maquet has remained in the great man's shadow and never challenged his supremacy. When a quarrel breaks out between the two men, after Maquet passes himself off as Dumas in order to seduce Charlotte (Mélanie Thierry), a crucial question presents itself: what is the exact part each man has in the work's success? Who is the father  of d'Artagnan, and of Monte Cristo? In short, who is really the author? Their formerly peaceful relationship is now in doubt and topples over into confrontation. And not far away, in Paris, a revolution is building which will seal the fate of another relationship—that of Louis-Philippe— with the people of France.

## Cast

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* Gérard Depardieu – Alexandre Dumas
* Benoît Poelvoorde – Auguste Maquet
* Dominique Blanc – Céleste Scriwaneck
* Mélanie Thierry – Charlotte Desrives
* Catherine Mouchet – Caroline Maquet
* Jean-Christophe Bouvet – M. Bocquin
* Philippe Magnan – Guizot
* Florence Pernel – Ida Ferrier Dumas
* Michel Duchaussoy – Sub-prefect Crémieux
* Roger Dumas – M. de Saint Omer
* Ophélia Kolb – Marion
* Christian Abart – Inspector Flanchet
* Alexis Michalik – Jean-Baptiste Béraud

## Reception

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The Council of Black Associations of France criticized the decision to cast the white actor Gérard Depardieu to play the part of Dumas, who "was the grandson of a Haitian slave and often referred to himself as a negro".[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b "L'Autre Dumas". JP's Box-Office.
2. ^ Kirby, Emma Jane (19 February 2010). "Dumas film with white actor Depardieu sparks race row". BBC News. Retrieved 19 August 2011.

## External links

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* Dumas at IMDb

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Films directed by Safy Nebbou

* The Giraffe's Neck (2004)
* Childhoods (2007)
* Mark of an Angel (2008)
* Dumas (2010)
* Comme un homme (2012)
* In the Forests of Siberia (2016)

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Alexandre Dumas père

Novels|

* The Conspirators
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* The Countess of Salisbury
* The Three Musketeers
* The Fencing Master
* The Corsican Brothers
* The Black Tulip
* Captain Pamphile
* Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
* La Dame de Monsoreau
* Georges
* The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
* The Queen's Necklace
* La Reine Margot
* The New Troy
* Twenty Years After
* The Two Dianas
* The Vicomte de Bragelonne
* The Companions of Jehu
* The Wolf Leader
* La Sanfelice
* The Women's War

Travelogues|

* Le Speronare
* Le Capitaine Aréna
* Le Corricolo

Characters|

* Edmond Dantès
* Aramis
* Athos
* Anne of Austria
* d'Artagnan
* Abbé Faria
* Milady de Winter
* Porthos
* Cardinal Richelieu
* Comte de Rochefort
* M. de Tréville

Related|

* Alexandre Dumas fils (son)
* Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (father)
* Marie-Cessette Dumas (grandmother)
* Auguste Maquet (collaborator)
* Théâtre Historique
* Château de Monte-Cristo
* L'Autre Dumas (2010 film)
* Orson Welles and People (lost documentary)

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