DIRECTOR: Jean Delannoy

MAIN ACTORS: Michèle Morgan (Marie-Antoinette), Richard Todd (Axel de Fersen), Jacques Morel (Louis XVI), Aimé Clariond (Louis XV), Suzy Carrier (Madame Elisabeth), Jeanne Boitel (Madame Campan), Madeleine Rousset (Madame de Tourzel), Marina Berti (Madame de Polignac).

PLACE - YEAR:  France, 1955

On 30th April 1774 the king Louis XV is heavily sick and the royal family is with him in Versailles. Only Marie Antoinette, wife of the future Louis XVI, isn't there: she's to the Opera. It's the Carnival day and the dauphine, hidden behind a mask, try to demonstrate that she still can seduce men. Some day later, Louis XV die of smallpox and Louis XVI is the new king of France. At that very moment the count Hans Axel von Fersen discover that his pretty unknown girl of that evening is... the queen of France!