Chantecoq (1916)

19161h 21mdir. Henri PouctalFrancesilent filmwar film

With Claude Mérelle

Directed by Henri Pouctal

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Chantecoq A.K.A. L'espionne de Guillaume (Wilhelm's Spy) is a 1916 French spy film directed by Henri Pouctal, starring Claude Mérelle, Gaston Michel and Julien Clément. It is about an amateur detective unmasking a group of German spies in France on the eve of World War I. The scenario of the film is based on the novel L'espionne de Guillaume by Arthur Bernède.

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