Les Parents terribles (1948 film)

Les Parents terribles
Directed byJean Cocteau
Written byJean Cocteau
Produced byFrancis Cosne,
Alexandre Mnouchkine
StarringJean Marais
Yvonne de Bray
Gabrielle Dorziat
Marcel André
Josette Day
Narrated byJean Cocteau
CinematographyMichel Kelber
Edited byJacqueline Sadoul
Music byGeorges Auric
Distributed byLes Films Ariane (Paris)
Release date
  • 1 December 1948 (1948-12-01) (France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office2,256,777 admissions (France)[1]

Les Parents terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a successful stage revival of the play in Paris in 1946. The film has sometimes been known by the English title The Storm Within.

  1. ^ "Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films". Box Office Story.