The Great Deception (1959)

6.0/10 • 98 min • Comedy

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

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

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