Confessions of a Cheat

Le Roman dun tricheur sometimes known in English as The Story of a Cheat, but also as Confessions of a Cheat, The Story of a Trickster, or The Cheat is a 1936 film starring, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. It was adapted from Guitrys only novel, Les Mmoires dun tricheur, published in 1935.

He runs away and works at various jobs, such as doorman and hotel bellhop. In Paris, he is unwillingly drawn into a plot to assassinate the visiting Czar Nicholas II of Russia by fellow restaurant worker Serge Abramich. However, an anonymous letter which the Cheat implies he wrote leads to the arrest of Abramich and the other plotters.As an elevator operator in the Hotel de Paris in Monaco, the Cheat catches the eye of the much older Countess. They have a brief fling. By chance, they meet again in the present at the caf, though the now elderly Countess does not recognize her former paramour, much to his relief. ........

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