Synopsis

Bérénice Capel, a young teenager, took part in the competition to enter the Conservatory, against her father's will. Rompant with his family, the young girl in the first predestined name entered the theater formation in the class of Louis Jouvet thanks to the assistant of Madame de Lignières, here he offers his name. Bérénice de Lignières is douée, travailleuse, passionnée. You have learned the rhythm of learning from the greatest roles of the repertoire, including Édouard Bourdet, Véra Korène, Jean Gabin, Jacques Copeau, Jean-Louis Barrault. In 1937, she was admitted to the Comedy Française. The mountain of fascism in Europe, the political tensions in France, the professional rivalries, the amorous intrigues, recall the good nature of Bérénice here quickly turning into a good comedy. In the first place of the Occupation, before the promulgation of racial lore, the Maison de Molière excluded the Juifs of its troupe. The beautiful and brilliant society is rattrapée par son passé. Will you continue to find your true identity, at the risk of losing it? Should you join composer Nathan Adelman for a new life in America? Bérénice 34-44, first novel of an impressive maturity, we plonge in the hours, arcanes and velours of the Comedy-Française and in this period trouble of the story through the prism of an exceptional destiny. A captivating artistic path that does justice to the brilliant destinies of the late World War II.