Lafayette

The shot heard round the world thunders across the screen !

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

Drama War History

Pascale Audret

(Adrienne de La Fayette)

Jack Hawkins

(General Cornwallis)

Michel Le Royer

(La Fayette)

Folco Lulli

(Le Boursier)

Wolfgang Preiss

(Baron Kalb)

Renée Saint-Cyr

(Duchess of Ayen)

Vittorio De Sica

(Bancroft)

Orson Welles

(Benjamin Franklin)

Liselotte Pulver

(Marie Antoinette)

Edmund Purdom

(Silas Deane)

Georges Rivière

(Vergennes)

Rosanna Schiaffino

(Countess of Simiane)

Howard St. John

(George Washington)

Jacques Castelot

(Duke of Ayen)

Jean-Roger Caussimon

(Maurepas)

Jean-Jacques Delbo

(The exempt)

Michel Galabru

(Innkeeper)

Albert Rémy

(Louis XVI)

Roland Rodier

(Mauroy)

Henri Tisot

(Monsieur)

Anthony Stuart

(English Officer)

Roger Bontemps

(La Bergerie)

Jean Lanier

(Rochambeau)

Loïs Bolton

(Mme de Washington)

Jean Degrave

(Duke of Noailles)

Henri Amilien

(Seigneur de Ségur)

René Rozan

(Lauzun)

Eva Damien

Carl Studer

Anne Doat

((uncredited))

Solange Lafay

((uncredited))

Dominique Lion

((uncredited))

Gilles Brissac

((uncredited))

Bob Calvert

Hugh Mare

Martial

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