Lafayette The shot heard round the world thunders across the screen ! The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence. Details Casts Galleries Posters Title Lafayette Release Date 1962-02-16 Runtime 02 Hours 38 Minutes Genres Drama War History Production Companies Les Films Copernic, Cosmos Production Countries France, Italy Pascale Audret... Adrienne de La Fayette... Jack Hawkins... General Cornwallis... Michel Le Royer... La Fayette... Folco Lulli... Le Boursier... Wolfgang Preiss... Baron Kalb... Renée Saint-Cyr... La Duchesse d'Ayen... Vittorio De Sica... Bancroft... Orson Welles... Benjamin Franklin... Liselotte Pulver... Marie Antoinette... Edmund Purdom... Silas Deane... Georges Rivière... Vergennes... Rosanna Schiaffino... Comtesse de Simiane... Howard St. John... George Washington... Jacques Castelot... Duc d'Ayen... Jean-Roger Caussimon... Maurepas... Jean-Jacques Delbo... ... Michel Galabru... L'aubergiste... Original Size (1920x1080) Original Size (800x1200) Original Size (960x1440)