The Immortal Story

Clerk Lewinsky (Roger Coggio) is assisting his weird old rich boss Clay (writer-director Orson Welles) in recruiting a sailor in 1860’s Macao, finding Norman Ashley, whom he wants to play a part in an old legend he plans to re-create, in The Immortal Story, 1969, from an Isak Dinesen story.

Writer-director and star Orson Welles narrates, but not in the voice of his character, the wealthy old boss of clerk Lewinsky (Roger Coggie), whom he’s sent out in 1860’s Macao to recruit a woman to enact an old sea legend, finding Virginie (Jeanne Moreau), in The Immortal Story, 1969.

Following credits with writer-director Orson Welles and co-star Jeanne Moreau top-billed, Welles narrates his adaptation of the Isak Dinesen story, from her collection Anecdotes Of Destiny, Fernando Rey as a local denizen, Roger Coggio his clerk, in The Immortal Story, 1969.