Summary
In Argentina, 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, a family is
divided by their ideals. A patriarch landowner has two daughters,
who are married to a Frenchman and a German. When the old man
dies, the family moves to Europe and its two halves take up opposite sides in the
brewing conflict. One half of the family becomes a staunch
supporter of Nazism, the other ends up supporting the French Resistance
during the Occupation...
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Credits
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Script: Robert Ardrey, John Gay, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- Photo: Milton R. Krasner
- Music: André Previn
- Cast: Glenn Ford (Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid Thulin (Marguerite Laurier), Charles Boyer (Marcelo Desnoyers), Lee J. Cobb (Julio Madariaga), Paul Lukas (Karl von Hartrott), Yvette Mimieux (Chi Chi Desnoyers), Karlheinz Böhm (Heinrich von Hartrott), Paul Henreid (Etienne Laurier), Harriet E. MacGibbon (Dona Luisa Desnoyers), Kathryn Givney (Elena von Hartrott), Marcel Hillaire (Armand Dibier), George Dolenz (Gen. von Kleig), Stephen Bekassy (Col. Kleinsdorf), Nestor Paiva (Miguel), Albert Rémy (François), Jan Arvan (Auctioneer), Brian Avery (Gustav von Hartrott), Paul Bradley (Dining German Officer), Lilyan Chauvin (French Prisoner), Edward Colmans, Margarita Cordova (Woman in the audience), Daniel Crohem, Lucille Curtis, George DeNormand (Dining German Officer), Guy De Vestel (Mover), Fifi D’Orsay (French Prisoner), Harold Dyrenforth (Gestapo Officer), Richard Flato (Gestapo Officer), Bess Flowers (Cocktail Party Guest), Richard Franchot (Franz von Hartrott), Paul Frees (Resistance Driver), Wolf Frees (Security Officer), Marlene Gaba, Gregory Gaye (Salesman), Josef Goebbels (Himself), Elizabeth Harrower, Tom Hernández, Helen Higgins, Stuart Holmes (Parisian Diner), Angela Lansbury (Marguerite Laurier), Harold Miller (Partygoer), Tony Regan (Partygoer), Otto Reichow (Gestapo Officer), Leoda Richards (Parisian Diner), Henry Rowland (Gestapo Officer), Charles Sherlock (Dining German Officer), Ralph Smiley, Helen Spring, Robert Stevenson (Mover), Lomax Study (Butler), Louise Vincent (French Prisoner), Bobby Watson (Adolf Hitler)
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Runtime: 153 min
- Aka: Les Quatre cavaliers de l’apocalypse
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