Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

A film by François Lluelles et Vincent Lluelles

20 min - 2019 - France

Synopsis

January 1885. As the sun rises over the Bois de Boulogne, Isidore Gustave René de La Vieuville and Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac face each other in a duel. Fernand and Gaston, two beggars having spent the night out in the woods, keep a watchful eye on the scene from behind the trees.

When a stray bullet finally hits the poor Gaston in the head, Fernand has no other choice but to challenge the Baron de Cassagnac to a duel in order to avenge his lost friend...