The Immortal Story

Name: The Immortal Story
Genre: Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Released: 1968-09-18
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Orson Welles, Norman Eshley, Fernando Rey, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio

Rating

4.0 (1)

Release Date

9/18/1968

Runtime

58 mins

Genres

Drama Romance TV Movie

Overview

An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A restless meditation on desire and storytelling, where an aging man attempts to breathe life into legend by orchestrating an intimate encounter between strangers. The film moves with deliberate grace, blurring the line between fiction and reality until it becomes impossible to know what was ever truly felt.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulContemplativeRomantic

Themes

ObsessionMemoryArt and creationMortality

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

FormalistPainterly

Structure

Framed flashback

Jeanne Moreau

Virginie Ducrot

Orson Welles

Charles Clay

Roger Coggio

Elishama Levinsky

Norman Eshley

Paul, the sailor

Fernando Rey

Merchant

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

Interesting it is.
A story about stories and i think welles really creates something good with that.
Its like if the story within its story channels through multiple people which encapsulates how stories are told from one person to the next.
I wish it was just longer because this idea really could be bigger then it is.
Still good and finally, he is using colors.
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