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Bookmark this pageL'Aigle à Deux Têtes (1948)
Director: Jean Cocteau
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of Cocteau's more conventional films, based on his own play, with Marais as a poet/anarchist out to assassinate a 19th-century queen. But when she lays eyes on the ragged poet, it is, alas, love at first sight. He is the spitting image of her deceased husband, the King. When the emerging world of the bourgeoisie closes in (in the form of a corrupt Republican official), the couple has no other escape but death. Very Romantic, very Cocteau, and surprisingly, after 40 years, still very moving.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Jean Cocteau
Producer: Georges Dancigers
Cast: Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Sylvia Monfort, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Yvonne de Bray, Gilles Quéant, Ahmed Abdallah full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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