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Wikipedia article




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

Plot



In February 1848, Alexandre Dumas (Grard Depardieu) is at the height of his fame. He has withdrawn for a few days into the immense Chteau de Monte-Cristo near Le Port-Marly, that he is building. There he works with his collaborator, Auguste Maquet (Benot 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 (Mlanie 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 relationshipthat of Louis-Philippe with the people of France.

Cast



* Grard Depardieu Alexandre Dumas

* Benot Poelvoorde Auguste Maquet

* Dominique Blanc Cleste Scriwaneck

* Mlanie Thierry Charlotte Desrives

* Catherine Mouchet Caroline Maquet

* Jean-Christophe Bouvet M. Bocquin

* Philippe Magnan Guizot

* Florence Pernel Ida Ferrier Dumas

* Michel Duchaussoy Sub-prefect Crmieux

* Roger Dumas M. de Saint Omer

* Ophlia Kolb Marion

* Christian Abart Inspector Flanchet

* Alexis Michalik Jean-Baptiste Braud

Reception



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

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