The Great Deception 1959

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Comedy

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.

Release Date 1959-09-23
Runtime 1h 38m
Directors Jacqueline Audry, Henri Alekan, Marcel Grignon, Rina Macrelli, Serge Witta
Producers Alfredo Guarini, Eugène Tucherer, René Chevrier
Writers Jacques Laurent, Jacques Rémy, Ennio De Concini, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Pierre Laroche