The Immortal Story

Histoire immortelle is a TV movie starring Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, and Roger Coggio. In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.