Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard

Mar 4, 1967

1h 32m

★ 7.0

Overview

Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This will allow her to study the character and behaviour of her fiancé. But the young man resorts to the same stratagem...

Genres

Romance

TV Movie

Comedy

Production Companies

Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

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Cast

Dorante

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Silvia, la promise de Dorante

Danièle Lebrun

Arlequin, le faux Dorante

Claude Brasseur

Lisette, chambrière de Silvia

Françoise Giret

M. Orgon, père de Silvia et Mario

André Luguet

Mario, le frère de Silvia

Henri-Jacques Huet

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