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Alain Cuny
Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor in theatre and cinema.
Biography.
René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany. He developed an early interest in painting and from the age of 15 he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Picasso, Braque and members of the surrealist group. 
He then began working in the film industry as a costume, poster and set designer and was employed on films of
selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their apartment building homes are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The film climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market once was.
Cast.
- Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Hélène de Boismonfrais
- Marcello Mastroianni - George A. Custer
- Michel Piccoli - Buffalo Bill
- Philippe Noiret - Gen. Terry
- Ugo Tognazzi - Mitch
- Alain Cuny