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Louis XIV was an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band released four EPs between 2003 and 2007, and three albums between 2003 and 2008, the latter two of which were distributed by Atlantic Records.
Lead singer and guitarist Jason Hill, guitarist Brian Karscig, and drummer Mark Maigaard formed the group in April 2003, while living in Paris, France. Bassist James Armbrust joined soon after.
Louis XIV, the band's first album, was recorded in the Spring of 2003 in a basement in the Spanish district in Paris on a 16-track tape machine. It was released in November 2003 through Pineapple Recording Group, a label started by Hill and Karscig. The album sold over 22,000 copies in the first six months after release, despite being sold only at shows, on the band's website, and in some independent record stores. The album became popular in the UK in 2004, after the band performed on the Jonathon Ross television show one week after Oasis. The band also performed on the Mary Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1. They were embraced by Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme at the 2004 NME Awards.
Actors: Pascal Elso (actor), David Kodsi (producer), Frédéric Pierrot (actor), Xavier De Guillebon (actor), Pierre Cassignard (actor), Anne Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Raphaele Urtin (editor), Grégoire Bonnet (actor), Nicole Marie (miscellaneous crew), Christophe Kerambrun (miscellaneous crew), Yoan Jeronymos (miscellaneous crew), Pascaline Suty (costume designer), Pascale Portois (miscellaneous crew), Marc Ruchmann (actor), Pierre Merle (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Bob Todd (actor), Jack Taylor (actor), Aldo Sambrell (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Bill Paterson (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Billy Connolly (actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Richard Chamberlain (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Michael York (actor),
Plot: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Keywords: 1600s, 1640s, 17th-century, action-hero, adventure-hero, ambush, attack, axe-murder, bar-fight, based-on-bookActors: Bernard Musson (actor), Elisabeth Kaza (actress), Jean Desailly (actor), Pierre Belot (actor), Howard Vernon (actor), Pierre Semmler (actor), Lionel Vitrant (actor), Franck-Olivier Bonnet (actor), Etienne Draber (actor), Jean-Claude Dreyfus (actor), Vincent Grass (actor), Ticky Holgado (actor), Guy Delorme (actor), Yvan Chiffre (writer), Yvan Chiffre (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Ursula Andress (actress), Olivia de Havilland (actress), Cornel Wilde (actor), Albert Rueprecht (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Fritz von Friedl (actor), José Ferrer (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Michael Janisch (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Ian McShane (actor), Sylvia Kristel (actress),
Plot: King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...
Keywords: 17th-century, assassination-attempt, based-on-novel, bastille, female-nudity, foreign-language-adaptation, france, identical-twins, independent-film, iron-maskActors: Robert Hossein (actor), Philippe Lemaire (actor), Yves Barsacq (actor), Amidou (actor), Robert Berri (actor), Jacques Hilling (actor), Jacques Castelot (actor), Pierre Clémenti (actor), Henri Cogan (actor), Michel Creton (actor), Robert Dalban (actor), Jean Degrave (actor), Michel Galabru (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Paul Mercey (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Sergio Bergonzelli (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Pierre Cressoy (actor), Pierre Cressoy (actor), Armando Francioli (actor), Marcello Giorda (actor), Luigi Tosi (actor), Olga Solbelli (actress), Alexandre Dumas père (writer), Ezio Carabella (composer), Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni (costume designer), Miranda Campa (actress), Giorgio Venturini (producer), Adolfo Geri (actor), Giorgio Venturini (director),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,Actors: Philip Sleeman (actor), William Bakewell (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Léon Bary (actor), Nigel De Brulier (actor), Douglas Fairbanks (actor), Fred Cavens (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Henry Otto (actor), Robert Parrish (actor), Lon Poff (actor), Tiny Sandford (actor), Rolfe Sedan (actor), Charles Stevens (actor),
Plot: King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever. Richelieu enlists D'Artagnan to look after and protect the young prince. Meanwhile, de Rochefort learns of the twins and Richelieu's plans, and kidnaps the twin, raising him in secret. Many years later, with Richelieu dead and the young prince crowned King Louis XIV, Rochefort launches his plan. The king is kidnapped, replaced with his twin, put in an iron mask so as not to be recognized, and led off to a remote castle to be held prisoner. Louis XIV is able to alert D'Artagnan, who realizes that only his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis can help him, so he reunites the Musketeers to derail Rochefort's nefarious plot but at a heavy toll.
Keywords: 17th-century, abbess, abduction, acclaim, based-on-novel, cardinal-the-priest, carriage, catholic-priest, chase, conventActors: Olga Engl (actress), Toni Tetzlaff (actress), Ernst Hofmann (actor), Eva Speyer (actress), Sophie Pagay (actress), Erna Morena (actress), Gertrude Hoffman (actress), Hans Wassmann (actor), Leo Connard (actor), Kurt Middendorf (actor), Max Kronert (actor), Fritz Delius (actor), Max Mothes (actor), Boris Michailow (actor), Ali Hubert (costume designer),
Genres: History,Actors: Léonce Perret (director), Abel Gance (actor), Léonce Perret (actor), Fabienne Fabrèges (actress), Jeanne Marie-Laurent (actress), Louis Feuillade (writer), Abel Gance (writer), Valentine Petit (actress), René d'Auchy (actor), André Bacqué (actor), Amélie de Pouzols (actress), Mary Brunel (actress), Madeleine Sézanne (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Camille Bardou (actor), Gabriel Moreau (actor), Vincenzo Denizot (actor), Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn (director),
Genres: Drama, History, Short,