
Alain Resnais
Director

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.
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Alain Resnais
Director

Vittorio Gassman
Walter Guarini

Geraldine Chaplin
Nora Winkle

Fanny Ardant
Livia Cerasquier

Pierre Arditi
Robert Dufresne

Robert Manuel
Georges Leroux

Martine Kelly
Claudine Obertin

André Dussollier
Raoul Vandamme

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
School Teacher
Jean-Claude Arnaud
Le conducteur de la camionnette

Ruggero Raimondi
Comte Michel Forbek

Samson Fainsilber
Zoltán Forbek
Rodolphe Schacher
Pierre

Jean-Louis Richard
Pére Jean Watelet

Sabine Azéma
Élisabeth Rousseau
Lucienne Hamon
Juliette Watelet

Ruggero Raimondi
Count Michel Forbek
Véronique Silver
Nathalie Holberg
Guillaume Boisseau
Frédéric
Sabine Thomas
Marie