The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Length 125 minutes
Sacha Guitry | Lana Marconi | Émile Drain | Daniel Ceccaldi | Jeanne Fusier-Gir | Pauline Carton | Renée Devillers | Maurice Schutz | Henry Laverne | Maurice Teynac | Philippe Richard | Georges Spanelly | Georges Grey | José Noguéro | Maurice Escande | Jean Debucourt | Pierre Bertin | Roger Gaillard | André Randall | Howard Vernon | Jacques Varennes | José Torres | Denis d'Inès | Jean Piat | André Brunot | Anne Campion | Renée Bouzy | Georges Bréhat | Robert Dartois | Jeanne Daury | Dominique Davray | Max Dejean | Philippe Derevel | Bernard Dhéran | Françoise Engel | Robert Favart | Catherine Fonteney | Robert Hossein | Yvonne Hébert | Pierre Lecocq | Michel Lemoine | Simone Logeart | Sophie Mallet | Michel Nastorg | Georges Rivière | Robert Seller | Léon Walther