The Eagle with two Heads (French title L'aigle à deux têtes) is a French film directed by Jean Cocteau released in 1948.
A sickly anarchist breaks into the palace to murder the queen. but instead of killing he falls in love with her. Their love lives in secret for three days, while the wanted man hides from police and the queen nurses him back to health.
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The Eagle with Two Heads
Film
Directed by
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of...
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