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The Immortal Story (French: Une histoire immortelle) is a 1968 French film directed by Orson Welles and starring Jeanne Moreau. The film was originally broadcast on French television and was later released in theatres.
Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money ...
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The Immortal Story: Directed by Orson Welles. With Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley. In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
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- Drama
- Orson Welles
- 1968-09-18
A bitter merchant (Orson Welles) tries to bring to life a legend of a sailor who seduces a rich man's wife.
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- Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio
- Orson Welles
- Drama
Aug 30, 2016 · Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money ...
The Immortal Story. Directed by Orson Welles • 1968 • France. Starring Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio. Orson Welles' first color film and final completed fictional feature, THE IMMORTAL STORY is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen.
Sep 3, 2016 · The story involves Charles Clay, a grizzled, extraordinarily wealthy but lonely and embittered old man, played by Welles himself, of course, who possesses but one last unrealized ambition: to witness the fulfillment of a captivating sailor’s tale that he once heard while passing the time as a passenger on a ship.
