La salamandre d'or

Overview

In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.

Directed by Maurice Régamey

Top cast

Jean-Claude Pascal

Antoine de Montpezat

Valérie Lagrange

Anne de Guize

Madeleine Robinson

Louise de Savoie

John Justin

Vandoeuvre

Claude Titre

François 1st

Antoine Balpêtré

Bishop

Michel Galabru

Alchemist

Rellys

Clotaire

Scilla Gabel

Béatrice

René Génin

Peasant

J

Jacqueline Riche

Perrine, Béatrice's servant

Pierre Stéphen

Albert Dagnant

Pablo

J

Jacques Degor

Philippe Dumat

Georges Lycan

Walter, man of Vandoeuvre

François Florent

J

Jacques Porteret

J

Jean Brunel

J

Jacques Le Rumeur

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