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Royal Affairs In Versailles

1953, Movie, NR, 152 mins

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An impressive historical document which stars not Welles, Colbert, Aumont, or writer-director Guitry, but the Palace of Versailles itself. The magnificent decor, which is both amazing and repulsive at the same time, appears as it did in the late 1700s before the peasants took it upon themselves to revolt. Guitry, France's most historically minded filmmaker, was the first to receive permission to film at Versailles (THE THREE MUSKETEERS was also shot there in 1973). The idea ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1953
Rated NR

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Cast
Sacha Guitry: Louis XIV
Claudette Colbert: Mme. de Montespan
Orson Welles: Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Pierre Aumont: Cardinal de Rohan
Edith Piaf: Woman of the People
Gerard Philipe: D'Artagnan

 

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