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The Great Deception (1959)
Directed by Jacqueline Audry
Comedy · 1h 38m
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.
Cast
Andrée Debar
Geneviève d'Éon / Charles, chevalier d'Éon, agent secret au service du Roi
Bernard Blier
le baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
Dany Robin
la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV
Gabriele Ferzetti
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Isa Miranda
la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
Jean Desailly
le Roi Louis XV
Simone Valère
la marquise de Pompadour
Jacques Castelot
le marquis de L'Hospital, l'ambassadeur de France en Russie
Gisèle Grandpré
Blanche d'Éon de Beaumont
Bernard Lajarrige
Pascal d'Éon de Beaumont
Crew
- Director
- Jacqueline Audry
- Writer
- Jacques Laurent, Ennio De Concini, Jacques Rémy, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Pierre Laroche
- Director of Photography
- Henri Alekan, Marcel Grignon
- Original Music Composer
- Carlo Rustichelli
- Editor
- Dolores Tamburini, Yvonne Martin
- Producer
- Eugène Tucherer, René Chevrier, Alfredo Guarini
Details
- Original title
- Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon
- Release date
- 1959-09-23
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France, Italy
- Production
- Italia Produzione Film, gray-film