La poupée
Cast & Crew
Jacques Baratier
Zbigniew Cybulski
Sonne Teal
Claudio Gora
Catherine Milinaire
Jean Aron
Film Details
Synopsis
Colonel Prado Roth, a brutal South American dictator, is having an affair with Marion, wife of the great industrialist Moren. A revolutionary group, including Coral, Gant de Crin, and Pascuel, plan to assassinate the dictator. Moren sees the revolution as a useful business proposition, and his daughter, Mirt, becomes involved by falling in love with Coral. Professor Palmas, another revolutionary, has discovered the means of duplicating matter and creates a doll in the image of Marion, which can only live for 36 hours. He enters the body of the doll in order to control it, and as a nightclub dancer and stirring speaker, the doll becomes a symbol of revolt. Gant de Crin, unable to control his urge to kill, assassinates the dictator at a banquet before the appointed hour. Afterwards, practically everybody is revealed to be associated with the revolutionary party. Fearing that the revolution may collapse without the impetus of a well-staged assassination, Coral, the dictator's double, is forced to impersonate him and be assassinated in public at the proper time. Unwittingly Coral agrees, but once in the dictator's uniform, he begins to act as the dictator. The people who have risen in response to the doll are led into a trap and shot. [Other sources indicate that Moren orders Coral not to shoot the people.] The doll vanishes, and the dictatorship continues.
Director
Jacques Baratier
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski
Sonne Teal
Claudio Gora
Catherine Milinaire
Jean Aron
Sacha Pitoëff
Daniel Emilfork
Jacques Dufilho
Gabriel Jabbour
Michel De Ré
Laszlo Szabo
Roger Karl
Jean Galland
Max Montavon
Crew
Jacques Audiberti
Léonide Azar
Jacques Baratier
Raoul Coutard
Raymond Gauguier
Georges Koskas
Joseph Kosma
Lionex Films
Antoine Maestratti
Jorge Milschberg
Jorge Milschberg
Bernard Parmeggiani
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Opened in Paris in November 1962 at 95 min; Cannes Film Festival running time: 100 min. U. S. press material lists wide-screen process as CinemaScope. Also known as He, She or It!
