The Devil Who Limped

The film is a 125minute blackandwhite biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPérigord 17541838 who served for 50 years under five different French regimes the Absolute Monarchy the Revolution the Consulate the Empire and the Constitutional Monarchy Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron