Thomas the Impostor

Thomas the Impostor
  • Release date: 5 May 1965
  • Release year: 1965
  • Runtime: 94 minutes
  • Country: France
  • Keywords: death by gunshot, mythomania, animal on fire, horse set on fire, literature on screen, european literature on screen, french literature on screen, 20th century literature on screen, name in title, male name in title
Plot:
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
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