Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.

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Cast

Gene Wilder

Claude / Philippe

Donald Sutherland

Charles / Pierre

Hugh Griffith

King Louis

Jack MacGowran

Jacques

Billie Whitelaw

Queen Marie

Victor Spinetti

Duke d'Escargot

Ewa Aulin

Christina

Helen Fraser

Mimi

Rosalind Knight

Helene de Sisi

Harry Fowler

Marcel

Murray Melvin

Blind Man

Orson Welles

The Narrator