Film
Royal Affairs in Versailles
France · Italy- Age rating
- 16
- Director
- Sacha Guitry
- Year
- 1953
The history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present.
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
Top cast
Sacha Guitry
Louis XIV (older)
Bourvil
Museum guard
Lana Marconi
Marie-Antoinette / Nicole Legay
Gaby Morlay
Countess de la Motte
Gérard Philipe
D'Artagnan
Jean Marais
Louis XV
Jean Desailly
Marivaux
Jean-Louis Barrault
Fénelon
Jeanne Boitel
Mrs. de Sévigné
Gilbert Bokanowski
Louis XVI
Michel Auclair
Jacques Damiens
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Cardinal de Rohan
Pauline Carton
Neighbor
Gino Cervi
Cagliostro
Jean Chevrier
Turenne
Georges Marchal
Louis XIV young
Aimé Clariond
Rivarol
Claudette Colbert
Mrs. de Montespan
Directed by
Sacha Guitry
Written by
Sacha Guitry
Produced by
Sacha Guitry, Ignace Morgenstern
