The Immortal Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-09-18

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

58 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1435 Reviews)

Director:

Orson Welles

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Jeanne Moreau Orson Welles Roger Coggio Norman Eshley

Writer:

Karen Blixen (novel)

Orson Welles

Louise de Vilmorin

Fullplot:

The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and not true. Mr. Clay has no heir for his fortune and no wife either. He resolves to make the story true... Levinsky approaches Virginie, another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor...

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