Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)

Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)

2019-03-07 France 91 Min. PG-13
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Overview

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.

Cast

Jean-Noël Martin is Louis XIV vieux
Louis XIV vieux
Delphine Bechetoille is Reine Marie-Thérèse
Reine Marie-Thérèse
Bertrand Chamerois is Nicodème Tessin
Nicodème Tessin
Clara Cirera is Dame d'honneur
Dame d'honneur
Anouchka Csernakova is Anne d'Autriche
Anne d'Autriche
Charles Durot is Marquis de Sourde
Marquis de Sourde
Alice Gozlan is La Dauphine
La Dauphine
Donat Guibert is Charles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)
Charles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)
Emmanuel Ménard is Courtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)
Courtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)
Olivier Pierre Richard is Secrétaire parlant
Secrétaire parlant
Geoffrey Finch is Narrator (English)
Narrator (English)