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The Eagle with Two Heads is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Cocteau released in USA on 18 december 1948 with Edwige Feuillère
The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
L'Aigle à deux têtes
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 18 december 1948
Length 1h37
Directed by Jean Cocteau
OriginFrance
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Rating65%
The Eagle with Two Heads (French title L'Aigle à deux têtes) is a French film directed by Jean Cocteau released in 1948. It was adapted from his own play L'Aigle à deux têtes which was first staged in 1946, and it retained the principal actors from the first Paris production.
Synopsis
On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to the police. She sees him as the welcome embodiment of her own death, calling him Azrael (the angel of death). An ambiguous love develops between them, uniting them in a bid to outwit the machinations of the court politicians, represented by the Comte de Foëhn, the chief of police, and Édith de Berg, the Queen's companion. In order to remain true to their ideals and to each other, the Queen and Stanislas have to play their parts in a bizarre private tragedy, which the world will never understand.Actors
Edwige Feuillère
(Natasha, la Reine)
Jean Marais
(Stanislas)
Jean Debucourt
(Felix de Willenstein)
Silvia Monfort
(Édith de Berg)
Jacques Varennes
(Comte de Foehn)
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