
190 minutes
4/12/1989
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).

Hugh Grant
as Charles Heidsieck

Megan Gallagher
as Pauline

Georges Descrières
as Pierre-Henri

Jean-Claude Dauphin
as Ernest

Stéphane Audran
as Thérèse

Megan Follows
as Louise

Alexandra Stewart
as Cécile

Jean-Paul Muel
as Clément
Charles W. Gray
as Moses

Vladek Sheybal
as Comte Plasky

Béatrice Agenin
as Mme de Ghuilain

Pier Paolo Capponi
as M. de Ghuilain

Vincent Grass

Jean-Christophe Lebert

Jean-Paul Tribout
Véronique Prune

André Oumansky

Denis Forest
as Paul Lampin

Kenneth Welsh
as John Whistlow