Film
The Great Deception
1959Directed by Jacqueline Audry
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
About The Great Deception
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Jacqueline Audry
- Writers
- Jacques Laurent
- Jacques Rémy
- Ennio De Concini
- Vittorio Nino Novarese
- Pierre Laroche
- Original title
- Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon
Principal cast
In billing order- Andrée DebarGeneviève d'Éon / Charles, chevalier d'Éon, agent secret au service du Roi
- Bernard Blierle baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
- Dany Robinla comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV
- Gabriele FerzettiBernard Turquet de Mayenne
- Isa Mirandala tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
- Jean Desaillyle Roi Louis XV
