Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
La vie est un roman (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Vittorio Gassman	...	Walter Guarini
	Ruggero Raimondi	...	Comte Michel Forbek / Count Michel Forbek
	Geraldine Chaplin	...	Nora Winkle
	Fanny Ardant	...	Livia Cerasquier
	Pierre Arditi	...	Robert Dufresne
	Sabine Azéma	...	Élisabeth Rousseau
	Robert Manuel	...	Georges Leroux
	Martine Kelly	...	Claudine Obertin
	Samson Fainsilber	...	Zoltán Forbek
	Véronique Silver	...	Nathalie Holberg
	André Dussollier	...	Raoul Vandamme
	Guillaume Boisseau	...	Frédéric
	Sabine Thomas	...	Marie
	Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu	...	School Teacher
	Rodolphe Schacher	...	Pierre

Storyline

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons. Written by Will Gilbert  

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