Movie
La Marseillaise
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1938-02-10
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Réalisation d'Art Cinématographique
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Pierre Renoir as Louis XVI King of France
- Lise Delamare as Queen Marie-Antoinette
- Louis Jouvet as Roederer
- Jaque Catelain as Capitaine Langlade
- Elisa Ruis as La princesse de Lamballe
- Aimé Clariond as Monsieur de Saint Laurent
- Jean Aymé as Monsieur de Fouguerolles
- Léon Larive as Picard, le valet du roi
- William Aguet as Duque de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
- Marie-Pierre Sordet-Dantès as Le Dauphin
- Yveline Auriol as La Dauphine
- Pamela Stirling as Une suivante
Crew
- Jean Renoir - Director
- Jean Renoir - Writer
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