Synopsis
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...
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Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Albina Productions
- Co-production : Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distributors : Gerick Distribution, Action Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive producers : Micheline Rozan, Albina du Boisrouvray
- Adaptation : Louise de Vilmorin
- Author of original work : Karen Blixen
- Screenwriters : Louise de Vilmorin, Orson Welles
- Director of Photography : Willy Kurant
- Camera operators : Jacques Assuerus, Jean Orjollet
- Production Manager : Marc Maurette
- Editors : Claude Farny, Françoise Berger-Garnault, Yolande Maurette
- Sound Mixer : Jean Nény
- Narrator : Philippe Noiret
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1967
- French release : 19/05/1976
- Runtime : 1 h 10 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 33477
- Visa issue date : 26/09/1967
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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