Two men, one an aristocrat, and one a drunken lawyer, fall in love with the same woman during the early stages of the French Revolution.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Cast:James Wilby , Xavier Deluc , Serena Gordon , John Mills , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Anna Massey , Kathie Kriegel , Alfred Lynch , Gérard Klein , Jonathan Adams , Karl Johnson , Marie Bunel , André Maranne , Michel Subor , Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus , François Lalande , Claude Le Saché , Jean-Pierre Stewart
The similarity of a dissolute English lawyer to an exile from revolutionary France proves useful.
To save Charles from the guillotine, Carton proposes a desperate measure.