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Overview
Les Chouans is a French period drama film first released in 1947,
directed by Henri Calef.
The film is based on a novel by Honoré de Balzac and stars Jean Marais, Madeleine LeBeau, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Amiot and Roland Armontel.
It has also been released under the title: The Royalists.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
In 1779, the Marquis de Montauran returns to France and becomes the
figurehead of a royalist uprising known as the Chouans. Their
Republican enemies recruit the aristocrat Marie de Verneuil to capture
the Marquis and thereby weaken the resolve of the Chouans.
Unfortunately, Marie falls in love with the Marquis and is prepared to
do anything so that she can marry him...
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