The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.

Terence Stamp
as Arthur Rimbaud

Jean-Claude Brialy
as Paul Verlaine

Florinda Bolkan
as Gennet

Pier Paolo Capponi
as

Niké Arrighi
as

Giancarlo Prati
as

Debebe Eshetu
as

Pascal Mazzotti
as

William Sabatier
as