The early days of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens in Marseille and the royal court, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Direction
Renoir balances royal intimacy with massive crowd sequences.
Writing
Dialogue that breathes — common people sound like people, not speeches.
Director
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir
Louis XVI King of France
Lise Delamare
Queen Marie-Antoinette
Louis Jouvet
Roederer
Jaque Catelain
Capitaine Langlade
Elisa Ruis
La princesse de Lamballe
Aimé Clariond
Monsieur de Saint Laurent
Jean Aymé
Monsieur de Fouguerolles
Léon Larive
Picard, le valet du roi
Pamela Stirling
Une suivante
Jean Aquistapace
Paul Giraud, le maire du village
Georges Spanelly
La Chesnaye
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Funded by France's Popular Front government as antifascist propaganda — released months before the Munich Agreement made its warning terrifyingly relevant.
Renoir used actual descendants of Revolutionary families as extras; the marching song was recorded live with 2,000 Marseillais singing together.
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