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Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.
Original Release
05/24/1968
US Release
09/18/1968
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeanne Moreau | Virginie Ducrot |
Roger Coggio | Elishama Levinsky |
Norman Eshley | Paul, the sailor |
Fernando Rey | Merchant / Merchant telling Clay's history |
Orson Welles | Mr. Charles Clay / Charles Clay |
Directors
Writers
Orson Welles, Karen Blixen, Louise de Vilmorin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeanne Moreau | Virginie Ducrot |
Roger Coggio | Elishama Levinsky |
Norman Eshley | Paul, the sailor |
Fernando Rey | Merchant / Merchant telling Clay's history |
Orson Welles | Mr. Charles Clay / Charles Clay |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Albina du Boisrouvray | Producer |
Jacques-Bernard Dupont | Producer |
Micheline Rozan | Producer |
Editors
Marcelle Pluet, Yolande Maurette, Françoise Garnault, Claude Farny