Summary
In 1777, a devotee of the radical ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau, the
Marquis de La Fayette abandons his position in the royal army and joins
the American insurgents in the fight against the British troops in what
is soon to become the United States of America. As La Fayette
fights alongside George Washington in the New World, Benjamin Franklin
travels to France to win the support of King Louis XVI...
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Credits
- Director: Jean Dréville
- Script: Jean Bernard-Luc, Jean Dréville, François Ponthier, Suzy Prim, Jacques Sigurd
- Photo: Roger Hubert, Claude Renoir
- Music: Pierre Duclos, Steve Laurent
- Cast: Pascale Audret (Adrienne de La Fayette), Jack Hawkins (General Cornwallis), Michel Le Royer (La Fayette), Wolfgang Preiss (Baron Kalb), Liselotte Pulver (Marie Antoinette), Edmund Purdom (Silas Deane), Georges Rivière (Vergennes), Rosanna Schiaffino (Comtesse de Simiane), Howard St. John (George Washington), Vittorio De Sica (Bancroft), Orson Welles (Benjamin Franklin), Jacques Castelot (Duc d’Ayen), Jean-Roger Caussimon (Maurepas), Albert Rémy (Louis XVI), Roland Rodier (Mauroy), Renée Saint-Cyr (Duchesse d’Ayen), Roger Bontemps (La Bergerie), Jean Lanier (Rochambeau), Michel Galabru (L’aubergiste), Loïs Bolton (Mme de Washington), Jean Degrave (Duc de Noailles), Henri Amilien (Seigneur de Ségur),
- Country: France / Italy
- Language: French
- Runtime: 158 min
- Aka: Lafayette
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