Balzac (1999) With French language (VF)
On his death bed, Balzac remembers. Young author, he is launching business, dreaming of revolutionizing the world of publishing. Thanks to the love of Madame de Berny, he can go to the end of his writing and meet the audience, who rushes to be able to "read the Balzac".
Balzac's Honour was a man who lived to write. His life was a disc, permanent struggle, of his relationship with his cold mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money from printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however – even if its dissolved lifestyle continues to land him in difficulty with his creditors. To finally earn praise for his works and earn enough money to survive, Balzac works as a man owned, day and night, at the edge of exhaustion, to drink litre on litre of coffee to stay awake. The passionate author also tends to go too far in heart affairs - he has several friends of the woman at the same time, all very different from each other. They include the genre, compassion and the elderly Mrs. de Berny, and the selfish, ambitious Laure d'Abrantès who introduced Balzac into the salons of the high society. The heart of Balzac belongs to only one person, however, Eve Hanska, a Polish bride living in Russia. At first, she and Balzac simply have a passionate exchange of correspondence, but they meet for the first time in Switzerland. On her return to Paris, Balzac is mortified to learn the death of Mrs. Berny.