Tartuffe

Moliere's timeless comedy, starring the incomparable Donald Moffat portraying the scoundrel Tartuffe, who manipulates his way into the confidence and affection of Orgon, an affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation, and whose wife and daughter Tartuffe attempts to seduce.

"Moliere's acerbic attack on human follies transfers well to the screen in this adaptation." - Variety

1978, 130 minutes, Color

Cast: Donald Moffat , Victor Garber, Tammy Grimes, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patricia Elliot, Kirk Browning, Stephen Porter


Written by: Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Directed by: Kirk Browning


Produced by: Ann Blumenthal

Executive Producer: Jac Venza


A presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York, Great Performances: Theater In America 1978