The Eagle Has Two Heads. (First edition). The Eagle with Two Heads (French title L'Aigle à deux têtes) is a French film directed by Jean Cocteau released in 1948.Synopsis On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to the police. She sees him as the welcome embodiment of her own death, calling him Azrael (the angel of death). An ambiguous love develops between them, uniting them in a bid to outwit the machinations of the court politicians, represented by the Comte d

COCTEAU, JEAN.

Published by published by Vision Press, London, 1948

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HARDCOVER. 8vo in black cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 141pp. 13 x 19 cm. CONDITION : VERY GOOD complete with Dust Jacket (small chips to flap fold corners and bottom edge of spine panel).

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• Title: The Eagle Has Two Heads. (First edition). The Eagle with Two Heads (French title L'Aigle à deux têtes) is a French film directed by Jean Cocteau released in 1948.Synopsis On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to ...
• Publisher: published by Vision Press, London
• Publication Date: 1948