“The First International French Star”: Sandrine Kiberlain will play the legendary actress in this biopic, and we know the release date!

After playing Simone de Beauvoir, Sandrine Kiberlain will once again treat celebrities from the art world. In the film Violette, released 10 years ago, directed by Martin Provost, she starred opposite Emmanuelle DeVos as Violet Leduc and she was costumed by author Simone de Beauvoir.

This time it will be Sarah Bernhardt! She will be the heroine of a film called Sarah Bernhardt, Divine, directed by Guillaume Niclu. French movie The information was revealed a few months ago and presented as “the first international French star”. This will be the first film dedicated to this woman known as the Tragedian.

Now we know that the film, which was shot last January-February, will be released this fall. Dated 30 October 2024.

what plot

The story begins in Paris in 1915. Sarah Bernhardt was 70 years old then. The day after his leg was amputated, he confided in his godson, Sacha Guitry, a young author, about a passionate story he had experienced as a child…for a brilliant author and actor named Lucien Guitry, his father. Sacha.

“This woman was incredibly modern in her views and personal life, the first influencer and the first world star. The film will not be an official biopic, but will evoke certain aspects of his life from 1884 to 1923.According to François Kraus, one of the film’s producers, in the columns of Film Français.

Laurent Lafitte as Sasha Guitry

Laurent Lafitte will star as Sasha Guitry. Around them are “Amira Cassar (Louise Abema, painter and Sarah Bernhardt’s best friend), Pauline Etienne, Laurent Stocker and Sébastien Pouderoux, both from the Comédie-Française,” Le Film Français specifies.

The film will be released in theaters on October 30, 2024.