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The Immortal Story ( French: Une histoire immortelle) is a 1968 French film directed by Orson Welles and starring Jeanne Moreau. The film was originally broadcast on French television and was later released in theatres. It was based on a short story by the Danish writer Karen Blixen (more widely known by her pen name Isak Dinesen).
The Immortal Story: Directed by Orson Welles. With Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley. In Macao, a wealthy merchant 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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The Immortal Story. Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor ...
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Watch The Immortal Story with a subscription on Max, rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A bitter merchant (Orson Welles) tries to bring to life a ...
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Aug 30, 2016 · Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, <I>The Immortal Story</I> is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ...
Sep 3, 2016 · The new Criterion Collection edition of The Immortal Story just established itself as the preeminent example of what a difference physical media can make in elevating the stature of a film that had previously only been available via internet streaming for most viewers. I watched the film on Hulu a couple years ago, and my experience basically ...
Aug 26, 2016 · August 26, 2016. A fog hangs over The Immortal Story, Orson Welles’s last completed fictional film, which was shot for French television. The characters have their heads in a past that merges with the fiction of their self-mythology. We hear tale after tale over the course of the film—one religious, a few legendary, many personal—which ...
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