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Shadow of the Guillotine: Directed by Jean Delannoy. With Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel, Jeanne Boitel. While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
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- Drama, History
- Jean Delannoy
- 1956-04-27
- ‘Marie-Antoinette’
- ‘Royal Affairs in Versailles’
- ‘Marie Antoinette Queen of France’
- ‘La Révolution Française’
- ‘The Affair of The Necklace’
- Farewell, My Queen
- ‘One Nation, One King’
Made in 1938, this was one of the earliest movies about Marie-Antionette. Starring Norma Shearer, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role, the movie focuses on the relationship between Marie-Antoinette and her husband. In fact, despite the royal surroundings, it’s very much about a family drama, and this makes it all the more relatable. Directe...
Made in 1954, this movie tells the story of the Palace of Versailles, showcasing the greatest and most colorful monarchs that walked the royal halls. Of course, Marie-Antoinette had to be one of them, played by the director’s wife, Lana Marconi. Directed by Sacha Guitry, this is one of the most interesting Marie-Antoinette movies as it has a bigger...
Michèle Morgan’s beauty and grace are really what makes this movie so amazing. Her natural poise and charisma make this movie about Marie Antoinette mesmerizing and lends weight to the in-depth character study. It was made in 1956 and directed by Jean Delannoy. The movie focuses on the Queen’s last years between 1789 and 1793, portraying her as fal...
With Jane Seymour of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman fame playing Marie Antoinette, this movie is a bold experiment. It’s actually two movies put together (La Révolution Française: Les Années Lumière and La Révolution Française: Les Années Terribles) with two different directors, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Made in 1989,...
This 2001 movie isn’t technically a movie about Marie-Antoinette. It’s based on a true story about a scandal that involved her and focuses on the entire court, not only Marie-Antoinette: the affair of the diamond necklace. This story of deception focuses on Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, played by Hilary Swank. Left impoverished by debt, Swank’s c...
This is a movie about the connections between people – what makes them strong and what makes them weak. The movie stars the beautiful Diane Kruger,who makes for a beautiful, charismatic Queen and tells the story of the final days of the French court through the eyes of a servant, Sidonie Laborde, played by French actress Léa Seydoux. Made in 2012, ...
Written and directed by Pierre Schoeller, this 2018 movie is a sweeping historical study of the events and the characters involved in the French Revolution. It’s filled with historical figures like Danton, Marat, and Robespierre, looking at their roles and their place in the Revolution and beyond. Of all the movies about Marie-Antoinette, this is o...
Overview. While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception. Jean Delannoy. Director, Writer. Bernard Zimmer.
Michele Morgan stars as the Austrian princess who becomes the last Queen of France in waning years of the 18th century. Jacques Morel costars as King Louis XVIII, Antoinette's slow-witted, ineffectual husband, while Richard Todd is the dashing European ambassador who briefly brings romance into the heroine's life.
- Jean Delannoy
Well appointed but staid to the point of blandness. Although the beauteous and refined Michèle Morgan can easily go toe to toe with any screen Marie-Antoinette from Norma Shearer to Nina Foch to Joely Richardson to Kirsten Dunst to Diane Kruger, etc. French films in the 50s were still infrequently made in colour but Morgan appeared in her fair share from this one to the earlier The Grand ...
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Marie Antoinette Queen of France is a 1956 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote the screenplay with Pierre Erlanger and Bernard Zimmer. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Richard Todd. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
