← Back

The Fire Within

Original title: Le Feu follet / A Time to Live and a Time to Die
1963 · 1 h 48 min
Directed by Louis Malle · France · French New Wave
Drama

Cast

Maurice Ronet Léna Skerla Yvonne Clech Hubert Deschamps Jean-Paul Moulinot Mona Dol

Credits

Written by: Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

Plot

A recovering alcoholic, Alain Leroy, leaves a clinic for a last tour of his friends in Paris, and decides whether to go on living, with Maurice Ronet.

Sinekatalog’s take

A bleak, melancholic and quietly devastating drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (11,843 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

If you liked this

Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.