TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and his unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France's Sun King, and in the process reinvents the costume drama. The death of the chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, the construction of the Palace of Versailles, the extravagant meals of the royal court: all are recounted with the same careful, humane attention that marked the director's contemporary portraits of postwar Italy. The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV dares to place a larger-than-life figure at the level of mere mortal.
• Cast: Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn, Dominique Vincent, Pierre Barrat, Fernand Fabre, Françoise Ponty, Joëlle Laugeois, Maurice Barrier, André Dumas, François Mirante, Pierre Spadoni, Roger Guillo, Louis Raymond, Maurice Bourbon, Michel Ferre, Guy Pintat, Michelle Marquais, Jean-Jacques Daubin, Georges Goubert, Pierre Pernet, Gilette Barbier, Jean Obé, Jacques Charby, Micheline Muc, Michel Debrane, René Rabault, François Bennard, Georges Spanelly, Jean Soustre, Axel Ganz, Jean-Jacques Leconte, Violette Marceau, Paula Dehelly, Jacques Préboist, Robert Cransac, André Daguenet, Marc Fraiseau, Pierre Frag, Jean Coste, Rita Maiden, Françoise Deville, Katherina Renn, Marquis de Brissac, Vicomte de Chabot, Jacqueline Corot, Hélène Manesse, Roberto Rossellini, Philippe Erlanger, Jean Gruault
• Director: Roberto Rossellini
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: Movie