Desc: Mester Pierre Pathelin: Directed by Gabriel Axel. With Jens Østerholm, Lily Broberg, Axel Strøbye, Keld Markuslund. TV adaptation of an anonymously composed French farce dating 1464. Master Pierre Pathelin (Østerholm) is a local village lawyer with no professional, formal training who has very little work, due to the emerging class of professionally trained clerks and lawyers. In order to obtain cloth to replace his and his wife's holey clothing, he visits the clothier Guillaume Joceaulme (Axel Strøbye). By means of eloquence Pathelin deceives the trader, eventually to find himself deceived by the shepherd Thaibaut L'Agnelet (Keld Markuslund).