

85 minutes
6/14/1969
A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.

Jacques Dufilho
as Marshall Jérémie Boutre

André Dumas
as Cabries

Marc Dudicourt
as the priest
Jean Barrez
as Lezin

Jean Luisi
as Louis

Bernard Tiphaine
as the notary

Pierre Duncan
as the man with pigs

Mag-Avril
as Marie
Olivia Poli
as Boutre's dreamed wife
Marius Pellequer
as the fisherman
Luce Stebenne
as the grieving woman
Bernard Gauthier
as the captain
Marie-Christine Auferil
as the mermaid
Max Darrière
Georges Fontane
Jean Labbé
Gérard Serkoyan
as Cabries (singing voice)
Édouard Guibert
as Narrator (voice)