Marie Antoinette Queen of France
1956 film
- 27 April 1956 (1956-04-27)
Running time
Italy
Marie Antoinette Queen of France (French: Marie-Antoinette reine de France and also known as Shadow of the Guillotine) 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 (Jean Delannoy) at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux.
Cast
- Michèle Morgan as Marie-Antoinette
- Richard Todd as le comte Axel de Fersen
- Jacques Morel as Louis XVI
- Aimé Clariond as Louis XV
- Jeanne Boitel as Mme Campan
- Guy Tréjan as La Fayette
- Marina Berti as a comtesse de Polignac
- Marcelle Arnold as Mme. Adélaïde
- Jane Marken as Mme Victoire
- Jacques Dufilho as Marat
- Daniel Ceccaldi as Drouet
- Madeleine Rousset as Mme de Tourzel
- Suzy Carrier as Mme Elisabeth
- Paul Bonifas as Herman
- Jacques Bergerac as le comte de Provence
- Edmond Beauchamp as Comte de Luxembourg
- Yves Brainville as Danton
- Anne Carrère as Mme Du Barry
- Daniel Ceccaldi as Drouet
- Jean Claudio as Fouquier-Tinville
- Anne Doat as Rosalie
- Jacques Eyser as Joad
- Claudio Gora as Kreutz
- Camille Guérini as Necker
- Jean Hébey as Marquis de Migennes
- Jacques Hilling as Duc de Brunswick
- Georges Lannes as d'Avaray
- Jacques Marin as Crieur de journaux
- Raphaël Patorni as Duc de Choiseul
- Michel Piccoli as Le Prêtre réfractaire
- Marcel Pérès as Simon
- Frédéric Valmain as Comte d'Artois
- Jean Vinci as Toulan
- Michel Piccoli as le prêtre
- Jacques Morlaine as Un officier
- André Chanu as Le Prêtre assermenté
- Georgette Anys as Une émeutière
- Pierre Moncorbier as Le greffier
References
Bibliography
- Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film. Intellect Books, 2010.
- Zea, Zahra Tavassoli . Balzac Reframed: The Classical and Modern Faces of Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. Springer Nature, 2019.
External links
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France at IMDb
- Marie-Antoinette reine de France at Alice Cinema
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France at AllMovie
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Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- The Murderer is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Fever (1942)
- L'Éternel retour (1943)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Destinées (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
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