DIRECTOR: Pierre Granier-Deferre

MAIN ACTORS: Ute Lemper (Marie-Antoinette), Bernard Freyd, Christian Bouillette, Christian Charmetant, Tronson du Coudray, Daniel Mesguich Fouquier-Tinville, Dominique Zardi, Francis Stuart, François Caron, Frederic Van Dren Driessche Chauveau-Lagarde, Geraldine Danon Rosalie, Henri Attal, Isabelle Nanty, Jean-Pol Dubois Fabricius, Michel Herbault, Patrick Chesnais Herman, Paul Le Person, Pavel Slaby, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Clementi, Rufus, Simon Eine.

PLACE AND YEAR: France, 1989

 

 

The sad story of the last days of the queen Marie-Antoinette of France, called "L'Autrichienne": the days and nights in the Conciergerie's cell, the trial and the final sentence. Ute Lemper is simply great and this film is full of little details that only the good observers will recognize.