Angélique (2013)

Actors: Edith Vesperini (costume designer), Simon Abkarian (actor), Ariel Zeitoun (director), Mathieu Kassovitz (actor), Miguel Herz-Kestranek (actor), Gérard Lanvin (actor), Ariel Zeitoun (writer), Mathieu Kassovitz (actor), Philippe Blasband (writer), Patrick Descamps (actor), Philippe Bourgueil (editor), Nathaniel Méchaly (composer), Olivier Rausin (producer), Cathy Mlakar (miscellaneous crew), Julian Weigend (actor),

Vauban, la sueur épargne le sang (2012)

Actors: Nicky Marbot (actor), François Berland (actor), Joe Kotroczo (miscellaneous crew), Frédéric Maranber (actor), Donato Rotunno (producer), Jean-Paul Dubois (actor), Philippe Chaine (actor), Renaud Barbier (composer), Marc-Olivier Louveau (writer), Laurent Klug (actor), Franck Mercadal (actor), Alice Emorine (miscellaneous crew), Alexandre Landreau (editor), Frédéric Bocquet (actor), Armand Eloi (actor),

Versailles, le rêve d'un roi (2008)

Actors: Thierry van Werveke (actor), Anatole Taubman (actor), Serge Lalou (producer), Phil Craig (producer), Carolin Petit (composer), Antoine Coesens (actor), Michel Pilorgé (actor), Corinne Masiero (actress), Jean-Marie Galey (actor), Thierry Binisti (director), Michel Fessler (writer), Michel Fessler (writer), François Vincentelli (actor), Luc Gentil (actor), Valérie Adda (costume designer),

Le roi danse (2000)

Actors: Philippe Ravoet (editor), Ludo Troch (editor), Benoît Magimel (actor), Claire Keim (actress), Olivier Bériot (costume designer), Didier Decoin (writer), Johan Leysen (actor), Vincent Grass (actor), Philippe Brizard (actor), René Morard (actor), Tchéky Karyo (actor), Pierre Londiche (actor), Jacques François (actor), Bernard Vander Donckt (miscellaneous crew), Serge Feuillard (actor),

Plot: Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles. There are two protagonists - first the title character, Louis XIV, the French sun-king who has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer (like Nero wrote and performed musical poetry), and starts asserting himself against the entourage of his Medici mother, the regent during his minority, by building his palace complex and launching a 'fitting' new, mainly musical display of baroque show. Secondly the musical genius Gianbattista Lulli ('Jean-Baptiste') Lully, a Florentine upstart of unbridled ambition, quickly gains the king's absolute trust, despite the nationalist and aristocratic opposition to a low-born Italian, and thus turns the normally socially humble post of court composer into a 'ministerial portfolio of culture' of Cabinet rank, complete with a monopoly which kills of his artistic rivals in operatic theater. The script also weaves a complex web of court scheming for individual power and social interests, and even a sadistic but accidental murder on a young valet, producing a sensuous and sumptuous drama too complex for this format, ending in a freakish but fatal accident. Louis XIV's mother was Ana de Austria (in French, Anne d' Autriche), the daughter of one of the Hapsburgh Kings of Spain. Maria di Medici (in French, Marie de Médicis) was his grandmother, his father's mother. She was dead before Louis XIV reached the throne. Please correct the reference to "his Medici mother"

Louis, enfant roi (1993)

Actors: Isabelle Renauld (actress), Mario Luraschi (miscellaneous crew), Brigitte Catillon (actress), Max Vialle (actor), Margaret Ménégoz (producer), Michèle Laroque (actress), Aurélien Recoing (actor), Carlo Brandt (actor), Maurice Barrier (actor), Charles Berling (actor), Laurent Gamelon (actor), Carmen Maura (actress), Paolo Graziosi (actor), Jocelyn Quivrin (actor), Jean-Pol Dubois (actor),

Plot: The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. It was a dark and violent period, when the Louvre (meaning 'wolves hunt castle', hunting was a major aristocratic pastime), then still the somewhat gloomy royal palace, was the battle field of palace intrigues while the regency was held by queen-mother Anne of Austria but the actual head of the royal government was the aging cardinal Giulio Mazirini ('Mazarin'), the less-known Italian successor of Richelieu, who also introduced to the court and the kingdom a host of his countrymen from whom Louis would learn the passion for Italian culture, especially music which would flourish under the direction of Lully (but that later story is another movie, "Le Roi danse"). The elaborate script sketches the story of French power politics, too complicate and devious to summarize in any detail, but mainly from the viewpoint of the immature king under maternal guardianship, who probably didn't comprehend half of the grave troubles focusing on the strife between the official Catholic church and those claiming freedom of religion, especially for the Huguenots, but in reality mainly driven by personal and family ambitions and the grip of nobles on the kingdom at the expense of the royal power, and climaxing in a full rebellion, known as the Fronde, which forces the royal family to flee for their lives, an experience that may have decided Louis to dedicate his reign to preventing a repeat by establishing absolutism as he did. Some narration is done by Louis's younger brother Philip, the duke of Anjou, who seems smarter but as the spare heir is condemned to life in a golden cage, overshadowed by Louis while any 'disrespect' for his crowned sibling is punishable on the spot by strap lashes administered on his bare behind by a servant.

La guerre des femmes (1986)

Actors: Yvonne Clech (actress), Alexandre Dumas père (writer), Jean-François Garreaud (actor), Philippe Laudenbach (actor), Christine Laurent (actress), Roger Trapp (actor), Jean-François Calvé (actor), Florence Jaugey (actress), Catherine Jarret (actress), Magali Vendeuil (actress), Robert Scipion (writer), Pierre Pirol (actor), Pierre Bureau (director), Stéphane Chamard (actor),

Molière (1978)

Actors: Brigitte Catillon (actress), Jacqueline Staup (actress), Daniel Mesguich (actor), Sylvain Levignac (actor), Jacques Nolot (actor), Claude Lelouch (producer), Albert Delpy (actor), Marc Berman (actor), Roland Amstutz (actor), Jean Dasté (actor), Patrick Floersheim (actor), Maurice Chevit (actor), Gérard Croce (actor), Georges Klotz (editor), Louba Guertchikoff (actress),

Plot: Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the teeming streets of 17th century Paris, Jean Baptiste received a good Jesuit education and was fascinated by the street fairs and traveling carnivals that flourished in spite of the religious repression and hypocrisy of those cruel times. As a young man he joined the theatrical Bejart family to establish the Illustre-Theatre, which soon went bankrupt. The troupe reformed, found patronage, and went on the road for thirteen years, performing all over France. Poquelin developed his stagecraft adapting Commedia dell Arte plots to please brutalized peasants and cynical townspeople. He also married Madeline Bejart, the widowed daughter of the troupe's founder. Later he entered into a love affair with Mme Bejart's daughter, to the dismay of all. The troupe eventually returned to Paris and, on October 24, 1658, greatly impressed the 20-year old King Louis XIV, later to be called the Sun King. Moliere's life became bound up with the magnificent court at Versailles, and with its intrigues. He wrote, staged and acted in the plays now famous all over the world. He fought with his enemies and his friends, enjoyed success followed by failure, organized court festivities and defended himself against increasingly fanatic religious authorities. Above all, his theater was taken from life as his life was theatrical.

Le chevalier Tempête (1967)

Actors: Jean Martinelli (actor), André-Paul Antoine (writer), Gérard Buhr (actor), José Luis de Vilallonga (actor), Denise Grey (actress), Giani Esposito (actor), Claude Gensac (actress), Dora Doll (actress), Hubert Noël (actor), Jacques Balutin (actor), Geneviève Casile (actress), Mario Pilar (actor), Gilles Pelletier (actor), Angelo Bardi (actor), Robert Etcheverry (actor),

Si Paris nous était conté (1956)

Actors: André Chanu (actor), Henri Bosc (actor), Julien Carette (actor), Georges Bever (actor), René Blancard (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Alain Bouvette (actor), Edmond Beauchamp (actor), Andrex (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Amédée (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Antoine Balpêtré (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), René Berthier (actor),

Plot: A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.

Le règne de Louis XIV (1904)

Actors: Camille Bardou (actor), Gabriel Moreau (actor), Vincenzo Denizot (actor), Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn (director),