Y'avait un prisonnier

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Y'avait un prisonnier is a play by French dramatist Jean Anouilh. It consists of three acts and was first performed at the Theatre of the Ambassador's in Paris in 1934.

Plot

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Ludovic is a successful businessman but an error of judgement drives him to bankruptcy. Condemned to fifteen years' imprisonment in Italy, he finds his family at Cannes aboard the luxurious yacht of his brother-in-law, Guillaume Barricault. The latter has arranged the marriage of Anne-Marie, the daughter of Adeline from a first marriage, to the young Gaston Dupont-Dufort whose family is particularly influential, in order to restore the family's respectability sullied by Ludovic's errors. However, the experience of prison has profoundly changed the latter's character.

v t e Jean Anouilh
Plays written	Y'avait un prisonnier Le Voyageur sans bagage Thieves' Carnival Léocadia Eurydice Antigone Invitation to the Castle Ardèle ou la Marguerite Colombe The Waltz of the Toreadors The Lark Médée Humulus le muet Becket Dear Antoine: or, the Love That Failed Les Poissons rouges ou Mon père ce héros Chers zoiseaux
Films written and directed	Traveling Light (1944) Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
Films written only	The Citadel of Silence (1937) Love Cavalcade (1940) La Fiancée des ténèbres (1945) Anna Karenina (1948) White Paws (1949) Darling Caroline (1951) Crimson Curtain (1952) A Caprice of Darling Caroline (1953) The Knight of the Night (1953) The Passion of Slow Fire (1961) Circle of Love (1964) Trap for Cinderella (1965) A Time for Loving (1972)
Song lyrics	"Les Chemins de l'amour"

Original cast

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Aimé Clariond: Ludovic
Marguerite Pierry: Adeline, his wife
Simone Renant: Anne-Marie, daughter of Adeline
Jean Mercanton: Robert, son of Ludovic and Adeline
Henri Nassiet: Guillaume Barricault, Adeline's brother
Leo Peltier: Gaston Dupont-Dufort
Simone Gauthier: Lucienne
Henri Crémieux: Mr. Peine
Pierre Labry: The Sheep
André Alerme: Marcellin
Sets: René Moulaert

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