Lafayette
La Fayette
Drama
War
History
The shot heard round the world thunders across the screen !
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
1962-02-16
fr
Cast
Director
Jean Dréville
Pascale Audret as Adrienne de La Fayette
Jack Hawkins as General Cornwallis
Michel Le Royer as La Fayette
Folco Lulli as Le Boursier
Wolfgang Preiss as Baron Kalb
Renée Saint-Cyr as Duchess of Ayen
Vittorio De Sica as Bancroft
Orson Welles as Benjamin Franklin
Liselotte Pulver as Marie Antoinette
Edmund Purdom as Silas Deane
Georges Rivière as Vergennes
Rosanna Schiaffino as Countess of Simiane
Howard St. John as George Washington
Jacques Castelot as Duke of Ayen
Jean-Roger Caussimon as Maurepas
Jean-Jacques Delbo as The exempt
Michel Galabru as Innkeeper
Albert Rémy as Louis XVI
Henri Tisot as Monsieur
Jean Lanier as Rochambeau
Jean Degrave as Duke of Noailles
Carl Studer
Anne Doat as (uncredited)