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The French Calvinists

6.2 100 mins History   Drama   1972
Polsim Productions   ORTF  
Director(s): René Allio

Release Date: 22 Tue, Feb 1972

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.

Casts of The French Calvinists

Rufus

as Jacques Combassous

Jacques Debary

as Gédéon Laporte

Gérard Desarthe

as Abraham Mazel

Philippe Clévenot

as 'La Fleur'

Dominique Labourier

as Marie Bancilhon

François Marthouret

as Lieutenant François de la Fage

Hubert Gignoux

as Abbot of Chalonges

Gabriel Gascon

as Captain Alexandre Poul

André Reybaz

as Baron of Vergnas

Isabelle Sadoyan

as Madame Villeneuve

Gilbert Vilhon

as Vicar Taillade

Hélène Vincent

as Catherine de Vergnas

Anne Delbée

as Jeanne Pelat

Florence Dunoyer

as Peasant woman

Martine Dumond

as Madame Villeneuve's servant

Christine Laurent

as Marguerite Combes

Geneviève Mnich

as Flore Génoyer

Suzy Rambaud

as Françoise

Christiane Rorato

as 'La Brunet'

Janine Souchon

as 'La Geôlière'

Jean Benguigui

as Jean-Baptiste Fort

Maurice Bénichou

as Moïse Plantat

Vincent Béranger

as Soustelles

Raoul Billerey

as Brigadier

Auguste Berger

as Ozias Bancilhon

Pierre Dios

as Brunet

François Joxe

as Dragoon

François Dunoyer

as Samuel Guérin

Pierre Leomy

as Subdelegate Borely

Claude Lochy

as Subdelegate Villeneuve

Olivier Merlin

as Dragoon

Philippe Nahon

as Reboul

Franck Oger

as Dauphiné

Olivier Perrier

as Bouzanquet

Jean Bouise

as Coachman

Anne Clément

as Isabeau (uncredited)

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