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De Grey, un récit romanesque is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Chabrol with Catherine Jourdan
De Grey, un récit romanesque (1976)
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Add to a movie listDe Grey, un récit romanesque est un téléfilm français réalisé par Claude Chabrol, adapté de la nouvelle éponyme de Henry James et diffusé pour la première fois le 20 mars 1976 dans le cadre de la série Nouvelles d'Henry James. Cette série compte également Le Banc de la désolation de Claude Chabrol (le 13 mars 1976), L'Auteur de Beltraffio de Tony Scott (le 27 mars 1976), Les Raisons de Georgina de Volker Schlondorff (le 10 avril 1976) et Un jeune homme rebelle de Paul Seban (le 17 avril 1976).
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New York en 1830 : le récit de la malédiction qui pèse sur la famille aristocratique des de Grey : chaque fois que le fils aîné tombe amoureux, la jeune fille aimée meurt dans les semaines qui suivent.Actors
Catherine Jourdan
(Margaret Aldis)
Daniel Lecourtois
(Le père Herbert)
Yves Lefebvre
(Paul De Grey)
Hélène Perdrière
(Madame De Grey)
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