The Fire Within

After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends. Unsparing in its portrait of Alain’s inner turmoil and shot with remarkable clarity, The Fire Within is one of Malle's darkest and most personal films.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfer
- Archival interviews with director Louis Malle and actor Maurice Ronet
- Malle's Fire Within, a video program featuring interviews with actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff
- Jusqu'au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about the film and its source novel Le feu follet, by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, featuring actor Mathieu Amalric, writer Didier Daeninckx, and Cannes festival curator Pierre-Henri Deleau
- PLUS: Essays by critic Michel Ciment and film historian Peter Cowie
Cover by Rodrigo Corral
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfer
- Archival interviews with director Louis Malle and actor Maurice Ronet
- Malle's Fire Within, a video program featuring interviews with actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff
- Jusqu'au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about the film and its source novel Le feu follet, by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, featuring actor Mathieu Amalric, writer Didier Daeninckx, and Cannes festival curator Pierre-Henri Deleau
- PLUS: Essays by critic Michel Ciment and film historian Peter Cowie
Cover by Rodrigo Corral

Cast
- Maurice Ronet
- Alain Leroy
- Léna Skerla
- Lydia
- Jeanne Moreau
- Jeanne
- Yvonne Clech
- Ms. Farnoux
- Hubert Deschamps
- d’Averseau
- Jean-Paul Moulinot
- Dr. La Barbinais
- Mona Dol
- Mrs. La Barbinais
- Pierre Moncorbier
- Moraire
- René Dupuis / Dupuy
- Charlie
- Bernard Tiphaine
- Milou
- Bernard Noel
- Duborg
- Ursula Kubler
- Fanny
- Alexandra Stewart
- Solange
- Jacques Sereys
- Cyrille Lavaud
- Tony Taffin
- Brancion
Credits
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Producer
- Alain Queffelean
- Screenplay
- Louis Malle
- Based on a novel by
- Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
- Cinematography
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Editing
- Suzanne Baron
- Sound
- Guy Villette
- Collaborating director
- Philippe Colin
- Assistant director
- Volker Schlöndorff




