The Great Deception (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 23, 1959Release Date
The Great Deception (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 23, 1959Release Date
Plot.
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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Andrée Debar
Geneviève de Beaumont / Charles - Chevalier d'Éon
Dany Robin
la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV
Isa Miranda
La tzarine Elisabeth Petrovna
Gabriele Ferzetti
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Bernard Blier
Le baron d'Exter
Jean Desailly
le Roi Louis XV
Jacqueline Audry
Director
Ennio De Concini
Writer
Simone Valère
la marquise de Pompadour
Pierre Laroche
Writer
Jacques Castelot
le marquis de L'Hospital, l'ambassadeur de France en Russie
Jacques Laurent
Writer
Gisèle Grandpré
Blanche d'Éon de Beaumont
Vittorio Nino Novarese
Writer
Bernard Lajarrige
Pascal d'Éon de Beaumont
Jacques Rémy
Writer
Henri Alekan
Director of Photography
Alexandre Trauner
Production Design
Marcel Grignon
Director of Photography
Rosine Delamare
Costume Design
Alfredo Guarini
Producer
Carlo Rustichelli
Original Music Composer
Yvonne Martin
Editor
Franco Bottari
Set Decoration
Details.
Release DateSeptember 23, 1959
Original NameLe Secret du chevalier d'Éon
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Genres
Wiki.
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon is a 1959 French-Italian film. It stars Andrée Debar and Gabriele Ferzetti. It is loosely based on the life of Chevalier d'Éon, although it portrays them as a woman masquerading as a man, rather than a person who was biologically male but presenting as a woman, as was the case for the latter part of their life.