In the Portuguese town of Macao, a wealthy trader named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
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Title: The Immortal Story (TV Movie 1968)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Virginie Ducrot | |
| Orson Welles | ... | Mr. Charles Clay | |
| Roger Coggio | ... | Elishama Levinsky | |
| Norman Eshley | ... | Paul, the sailor | |
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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... Written by David Woodfield
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sailor | legend | foreign language adaptation | based on novel | story |Genres:
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
18 September 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), Albina Productions S.a.r.l. See more »
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(piano pieces)
Written by Erik Satie
Performed by Jean-Joël Barbier with permission of B.A.M.
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The interior scenes of " The Immortal Story " were filmed at the home of Orson Welles outside Madrid, Spain. See more »Goofs
Some of the Chinese signs are upside down or backwards. See more »Quotes
Elishama Levinsky: [holding shell to ear] I have heard it before... long ago... but where?See more »
Alternate Versions
French-language version runs 51 minutes. See more »Soundtracks
Gnossienne No. 3(piano pieces)
Written by Erik Satie
Performed by Jean-Joël Barbier with permission of B.A.M.
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The more I watch this movie, the more I love it. It's a gift of a genius who proves how easily Literature and Cinema can be mixed in a powerful way. Although is short and barely commercial, is a gem, a masterpiece of colour, rythm, music and words. The lasts shots, are simply magic.