Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.

• Norbud Films
• NorBud Productions
• Gene Wilder
• Donald Sutherland
• Hugh Griffith
• Jack MacGowran
• Billie Whitelaw
• Victor Spinetti
• Ewa Aulin
• Helen Fraser