The Great Deception
movie
Released September 23, 1959
Genres:
Overview
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
as
Geneviève d'Éon / Charles, chevalier d'Éon, agent secret au service du Roi
Bernard Blier
as
le baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
Dany Robin
as
la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV
Gabriele Ferzetti
as
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Isa Miranda
as
la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de Russie
Jean Desailly
as
le Roi Louis XV
Simone Valère
as
la marquise de Pompadour
Jacques Castelot
as
le marquis de L'Hospital, l'ambassadeur de France en Russie
Gisèle Grandpré
as
Blanche d'Éon de Beaumont
Bernard Lajarrige
as
Pascal d'Éon de Beaumont
Crew
Jacqueline Audry
as
Director
Jacques Laurent
as
Writer
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Jacques Rémy
as
Writer
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Ennio De Concini
as
Writer
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Vittorio Nino Novarese
as
Writer
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Alfredo Guarini
as
Producer
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Eugène Tucherer
as
Producer
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René Chevrier
as
Producer
Carlo Rustichelli
as
Original Music Composer
Henri Alekan
as
Director of Photography
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Marcel Grignon
as
Director of Photography
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Yvonne Martin
as
Editor