Samenvattingen(1)
The year is 1860 in the Portuguese colony of Macao, Mr. Clay (Orson Welles) is an aging, rich merchant, who is the subject of town gossip. He likes his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio), to read to him to help him relax in the evenings and one night he recounts a tale about a rich man who paid a poor sailor five guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Mr. Clay has no wife and no heir to his fortune and resolves to make the story true. Levinsky approaches Virginie Ducrot (Jeanne Moreau), another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor. (Mr. Bongo Films)
(meer)Acteurs
Jeanne Moreau
Frankrijk
Beste films:
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
Le Dos au mur (1958)
Orson Welles
USA
Beste films:
Shogun (1980) (serie) - verteller
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Fernando Rey
Spanje
Beste films:
The French Connection (1971)
Viridiana (1961)
Gesù di Nazareth (1977) (Tv-film)
Roger Coggio
Frankrijk
Beste films:
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Le Temps des loups (1970)
Norman Eshley
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Gesù di Nazareth (1977) (Tv-film)
Cadfael (1994) (serie)
Get Real (1998)