Madame (1961)
Overview
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
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| Original Language | fr |
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Directed By
Christian-Jaque
Crew
Christian-Jaque
Maleno Malenotti
Roberto Gerardi
Maleno Malenotti
Michel Safra
Serge Silberman
Eraldo Da Roma
Jacques Desagneaux
Alfonso Santacana
Mario Rappini
Jean d'Eaubonne
Jean d'Eaubonne
Santiago Ontañón
Antonio Cortés
Marcel Escoffier
Italia Scandariato
Giuseppe Annunziata
Giuseppe Banchelli
Fernando Florido
Carlos Nin
Vasco Reggiani
Luciano Perugia
Ricardo Sanz
Raymond Villette
Fernando Merino
Maurizio Lucci
Ennio Sensi
Sante Achilli
Christian-Jaque
Ennio De Concini
José Luis Dibildos
Jean Ferry
Rafael García Serrano
Henri Jeanson
Franco Solinas
Franco Solinas
Victorien Sardou
TOP CAST
Sophia Loren
Catherine Hubscher
Robert Hossein
Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
Renaud Mary
Fouché
Gianrico Tedeschi
Roquet
Marina Berti
Elisa Bonaparte
Enrique Ávila
Le sergent Fricasse
Carlo Giuffrè
Jérôme Bonaparte
Fernando Sancho
Pommier
Bruno Carotenuto
Blanchet - un garde
Gabriella Pallotta
Heloise
Célina Cély
Anna dite Ziguette
Analía Gadé
Caroline Bonaparte
Silvia Solar
Margot
Laura Valenzuela
Pauline Bonaparte
Julien Bertheau
Napoléon Bonaparte
Charito Trallero
(as Charo Trallero)
Tomás Blanco
Le maréchal Augereau (uncredited)
Robert Dalban
Le maître à danser (uncredited)
Renato Terra
Un sans-culotte (uncredited)
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