![all posters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w140/files/images/film/posters/000/020/20168_dfe50f.jpg)
Directed by:
Sacha GuitryScreenplay:
Sacha GuitryCinematography:
Philippe AgostiniComposer:
Jean FrançaixCast:
Françoise Arnoul, Jeanne Boitel, Sophie Desmarets, Sacha Guitry, Odette Joyeux, Robert Lamoureux, Jean Marais, Michèle Morgan, Giselle Pascal, Gérard Philipe (more)Plots(1)
Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous Etait Conte. Guitry himself appears as the ghost of King Louis XI, who relates the story of Paris to a group of fascinated modern-day students. As usual, Guitry manages to "humanize" history by depicting the great men and women of France in amusing warts-and-all fashion. Symbolizing the indomitable spirit of Paris is Robert Lamoureaux as Latude, a prisoner of the Bastille who repeatedly tries to escape, and just as repeatedly is captured and thrown back in jail. A note of pathos is provided by Jacques de Feraudy as the dying Voltaire. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gisèle Grandpré
France
Best movies:
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
The Track (1975)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
![Félix Marten](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/059/364/59364328_7a16fd.jpg)
Félix Marten
German Empire
Best movies:
The Violent People (1970)
La Rumba (1987)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
![Serge Sauvion](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/102/640/102640894_13fb27.jpg)
Serge Sauvion
France
Best movies:
Asterix in Britain (1986)
Asterix vs. Caesar (1985)
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
![Pierre Dudan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/072/312/72312475_398cb2.jpg)
Pierre Dudan
Russian Empire
Best movies:
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!... (1960)
Some Like It... Cold (1960)
![Jean-Jacques Delbo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/078/831/78831025_820182.jpg)
Jean-Jacques Delbo
France
Best movies:
The King of the Bla Bla Bla (1951)
The Common Man (1975)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
![René Génin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/078/831/78831451_f322de.jpg)
René Génin
France
Best movies:
The Moment of Truth (1952)
Port of Shadows (1938)
Daybreak (1939)
Louis Arbessier
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
The President (1961)
![Jacqueline Plessis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319216_355d54.jpg)
Jacqueline Plessis
France
Best movies:
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
![Claude Sylvain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319461_841b02.jpg)
Claude Sylvain
France
Best movies:
Rififi (1955)
Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
The Red and the Black (1954)
![Jean-Marie Bon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533915_b6e862.jpg)
Jean-Marie Bon
France
Best movies:
The Angel (1982)
The Sucker (1965)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Max Dalban
France
Best movies:
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Judgment of the God (1952)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
Jacques Mancier
France
Best movies:
Witness in the City (1959)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
Adorable Sinner (1959)
![Henri Coutet](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/120/455/120455795_a5de24.jpg)
Henri Coutet
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Fantomas (1964)
Love and Death (1975)
![Lucien Nat](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/120/456/120456201_5b0dad.jpg)
Lucien Nat
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
This Special Friendship (1964)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
![René Blancard](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/124/120/124120225_819373.jpg)
René Blancard
France
Best movies:
The Truth (1960)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
![Jacques Morel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886913_015f71.jpg)
Jacques Morel
France
Best movies:
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978)
![François Guérin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/019/158019396_69e7e1.jpg)
François Guérin
France
Best movies:
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus (1960)
![Paul Demange](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/307/158307323_3bcf1e.jpg)
Paul Demange
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Claude Viriot
France
Best movies:
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
![Guy Mairesse](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/406/158406988_ea52e4.jpg)
Guy Mairesse
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
The Confession (1970)