That Night in Varennes
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| Directed by | Ettore Scola |
| Produced by | Renzo Rossellini |
| Written by | Sergio Amidei Ettore Scola |
| Based on | La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français by Catherine Rihoit |
| Starring | Jean-Louis Barrault Marcello Mastroianni Hanna Schygulla Harvey Keitel |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Armando Nannuzzi |
| Edited by | Raimondo Crociani |
| Distributed by | Triumph Releasing Corporation (USA) |
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| Country | France Italy |
| Language | French, Italian |
That Night in Varennes (Italian: Il mondo nuovo ; French: La Nuit de Varennes) is a 1982 Italian and French drama film directed by Ettore Scola.[1] It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting between Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde (a lady in waiting to the Queen). They are all traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in their flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Selected cast
- Jean-Louis Barrault as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
- Marcello Mastroianni as Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt
- Hanna Schygulla as Countess Sophie de la Borde
- Harvey Keitel as Thomas Paine
- Jean-Claude Brialy as Monsieur Jacob
- Andréa Ferréol as Madame Adélaïde Gagnon
- Michel Vitold as De Florange
- Laura Betti as Virginia Capacelli
- Pierre Malet as Emile Delage, student revolutionary
- Enzo Jannacci as the Italian clown
- Daniel Gélin as De Wendel
- Didi Perego as Madame Sauce
- Caterina Boratto as Madame Faustine
- Dora Doll as Nanette Precy
- Hugues Quester as Jean-Louis Romeuf
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Monsieur Sauce
- Michel Piccoli as King Louis XVI
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). That Night in Varennes at IMDb
- That Night in Varennes at AllMovie
- That Night in Varennes at Rotten Tomatoes
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