Name: Start the Revolution Without Me
Genre: Comedy, History
Released: 1970-02-04
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw

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1970·Comedy·1h 30m

7.0

★

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.

Directed by Bud Yorkin

french revolution

twins

comedy of errors

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Cast

Gene Wilder

Claude / Philippe

Donald Sutherland

Charles / Pierre

Hugh Griffith

King Louis

Jack MacGowran

Jacques

Billie Whitelaw

Queen Marie

Victor Spinetti

Duke d'Escargot

Ewa Aulin

Christina

Helen Fraser

Mimi

Rosalind Knight

Helene de Sisi

Harry Fowler

Marcel

Murray Melvin

Blind Man

Orson Welles

The Narrator

Crew

Bud Yorkin

Director

John Addison

Original Music Composer

Norman Lear

Executive Producer

Bud Yorkin

Producer

François de Lamothe

Art Direction

Popular Reviews

10 reviews

Lorah Compton

7.0★ · 02/20/26

Giggled when they abruptly threw Orson Welles into the lake

elizabeth

10.0★ · 01/27/26

and i shall be queen!

oh my god i'm in love

nobody beats gene wilder at being angry

i have a love hate relationship with miscommunication troupes but this...this is the epitome of what it can be

it had me laughing so loud plus the ending is amazing

gene wilder and donald sutherland the world is greater because you made beautiful things

LeiaG20

8.0★ · 02/17/26

Greifff

6.0★ · 04/09/25

Mars

4.0★ · 03/06/25