The Great Deception (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 23, 1959Release Date
The Great Deception (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
September 23, 1959Release Date
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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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Cast & Crew.

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

René Lefèvre
Le comte Antoine d'Éon

Bernard Lajarrige
Pascal d'Éon de Beaumont

Jacqueline Audry
Director

Jacques Laurent
Writer

Jacques Rémy
Writer

Ennio De Concini
Writer

Vittorio Nino Novarese
Writer

Alfredo Guarini
Producer

Eugène Tucherer
Producer

René Chevrier
Producer

Carlo Rustichelli
Original Music Composer

Henri Alekan
Director of Photography

Marcel Grignon
Director of Photography

Yvonne Martin
Editor

Dolores Tamburini
Editor
Details.
Release DateSeptember 23, 1959
Original NameLe Secret du chevalier d'Éon
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
woman director
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.
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