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Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and 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 chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, the construction of the palace at Versailles, the extravagant meals of the royal court: all are recounted with the same meticulous quotidian detail that Rossellini brought to his 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.
Original Release
10/08/1966
US Release
08/18/1970
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Marie Patte | King Louis XIV / Louis XIV |
Raymond Jourdan | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
César Silvagni | Cardinal Mazarin |
Katharina Renn | Anne d'Autriche |
Dominique Vincent | Madame Du Plessis |
Pierre Barrat | Nicolas Fouquet |
Fernand Fabre | Michel Le Tellier |
Françoise Ponty | Louise de la Vallière |
Joëlle Laugeois | Marie-Thérèse |
Maurice Barrier | D'Artagnan |
Directors
Writers
Roberto Rossellini, Philippe Erlanger, Jean Gruault
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Marie Patte | King Louis XIV / Louis XIV |
Raymond Jourdan | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
César Silvagni | Cardinal Mazarin |
Katharina Renn | Anne d'Autriche |
Dominique Vincent | Madame Du Plessis |
Pierre Barrat | Nicolas Fouquet |
Fernand Fabre | Michel Le Tellier |
Françoise Ponty | Louise de la Vallière |
Joëlle Laugeois | Marie-Thérèse |
Maurice Barrier | D'Artagnan |
André Dumas | Le Père Joly |
François Mirante | M. de Brienne |
Pierre Spadoni | Noni |
Roger Guillo | L'apothicaire |
Louis Raymond | Le premier médecin |
Maurice Bourbon | Le deuxième médecin |
Michel Ferre | M. de Gesvres |
Guy Pintat | Le chef-cuisinier |
Michelle Marquais | Mme de Motteville |
Jean-Jacques Daubin | M. de Vardes |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Claude Baks | Producer |