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Score: 68.9%( 64 votes )

Overview: During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Cast:

Jean-Louis Barrault
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne

Marcello Mastroianni
Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt

Hanna Schygulla
Countess Sophie de la Borde

Harvey Keitel
Thomas Paine

Jean-Claude Brialy
Monsieur Jacob

Andréa Ferréol
Madame Adélaïde Gagnon

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Monsieur Sauce

Michel Vitold
De Florange

Laura Betti
Virginia Capacelli

Enzo Jannacci
Italian clown

Pierre Malet
Emile Delage, student revolutionary

Daniel Gélin
De Wendel

Hugues Quester
Jean-Louis Romeuf

Dora Doll
Nanette Precy

Caterina Boratto
Madame Faustine

Didi Perego
Madame Sauce

Évelyne
Agnès, Restif's daughter

Aline Mess
Marie-Madeleine, Sophie's servant

Jacques Peyrac
Postilion

Claude Legros
Sergeant at St. Menehould

Vernon Dobtcheff
Judge at the confiscation

Ugo Fangareggi
Soldier Bertrand

Yves Collignon
Drouet, postmaster

Maurice Jacquemont
Innkeeper at Chaintrix

Agnès Nobecourt
Hubertine, Madame Faustine's daughter

Roger Trapp
Blacksmith at Meaux

Annie Belle
Prostitute with green stockings

Fausto Di Bella
Cook at Auberge du Soleil

Jacques Zanetti
Giovane Comiziante

Antonella Cancellieri

Robert Nogaret
Beggar at Chaintrix

Bruno de Stabenrath
Gabriel Vallet

Michel Piccoli
King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Eléonore Hirt
Marie-Antoinette (uncredited)

Enrico Bergier
Barone Goguelat

Jean Tatu
Contadino

Claude Le Gross
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