A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
Acting
Ute Lemper's physical collapse is devastating.
Production
La Conciergerie recreated with suffocating authenticity.
Director
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Ute Lemper
Marie-Antoinette
Patrick Chesnais
Herman
Philippe Leroy
D'Estaing
Daniel Mesguich
Fouquier-Tinville
Rufus
L'abbé Girard
Jean-Pol Dubois
Fabricius
Pierre Clémenti
Hébert
Frédéric van den Driessche
Chauveau-Lagarde
Christian Charmetant
Tronson du Coudray
Géraldine Danon
Rosalie
Christian Bouillette
Larivière
Paul Le Person
Simon
Simon Eine
Lecointre
Isabelle Nanty
Reine Milliot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Granier-Deferre specifically cast Lemper, a German, to emphasize Marie-Antoinette's eternal foreignness — she dies never truly French.
The real Conciergerie cell was 3.5 meters; the film's set was built slightly smaller to intensify claustrophobia.
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