Top Cast
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
Le précepteur Raoul Vignerte
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Silvana Pampanini
La grande-duchesse Aurore de Lautenburg
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Renée Faure
Mélusine de Graffendried
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Louis Seigner
Le professeur Cyrus Beck
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Roldano Lupi
Le grand-duc Frédéric de Lautenburg
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René Sauvaire
Le capitaine Hagen
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Richard Flagey
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Jean-Michel Rankovitch
Un jeune prince
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Philippe Richard
Otto
Overview
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
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