The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Lana Marconi
Madame Grand
Émile Drain
Emperor Napoléon I
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Marie-Thérèse Champignon
Pauline Carton
Palmist
Renée Devillers
Duchess of Dino
Maurice Schutz
Voltaire
Henry Laverne
King Louis XVIII
Maurice Teynac
King Charles X
Philippe Richard
King Louis-Philippe
Georges Spanelly
Count of Montrond
Georges Grey
Caulaincourt
José Noguéro
Duke of San Carlos
Maurice Escande
Randall
Related
De Gaulle: Liberté
The Rays and Shadows
Austerlitz
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Stavisky...
The Young Karl Marx
De Gaulle: Résistance
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Mayerling
The Hunchback of Paris
Mr. Turner
The Colors of Fire
Napoleon
Django
Munich - The Edge of War
Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe