Top Cast
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Pascale Audret
Adrienne de La Fayette
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Jack Hawkins
General Cornwallis
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Michel Le Royer
La Fayette
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Folco Lulli
Le Boursier
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Wolfgang Preiss
Baron Kalb
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Renée Saint-Cyr
Duchess of Ayen
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Vittorio De Sica
Bancroft
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Orson Welles
Benjamin Franklin
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Liselotte Pulver
Marie Antoinette
Overview
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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