Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977)

• 61%
• 1977
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Raymond Gérôme
• Patrice Alexsandre
• Marie-Hélène Breillat

Basil Hallward (Denis Manuel) is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But-one-day-Basil meets Dorian Gray (Patrice Alexandre), symbol of youth and a certain beauty. The young man inspirierst Basil, so much so that his painting of Dorian turns out to be a sith masterpiece. Fascinated by his own porträt, the young man expressed the wish to sell his soul for an eternal youth. Lord Henry (Raymond Gérome), a friend of Basil ' s, idle, intelligent, cynical and devilishly seductive, character, will then live the life of Dorian Gray. Under his einfluss, Dorian gradually sinks into evil but keeps his youth intakt, while the table gradually indicates all the stigmata of old age and vice. Until the day when Dorian, obsessed with the testimony of the painting, stabs him. This gesture instantly ursachen his death; and we find, lying at the foot of a portrait of a young man, the corpse of a repulsive man.