L'Autrichienne (1990)

Director:

Pierre Granier-Deferre

Writers:

André Castelot, Alain Decaux

Stars:

Ute Lemper, Patrick Chesnais, Daniel Mesguich

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ute Lemper	...	Marie-Antoinette
Patrick Chesnais	...	Herman
Daniel Mesguich	...	Fouquier-Tinville
Philippe Leroy	...	D'Estaing
Rufus	...	L'abbé Girard
Pierre Clémenti	...	Hébert
Jean-Pol Dubois	...	Fabricius
Frédéric van den Driessche	...	Chauveau-Lagarde
Christian Charmetant	...	Tronson du Coudray
Géraldine Danon	...	Rosalie
Christophe Brault	...	Lt. de Busne
Christian Bouillette	...	Larivière
Paul Le Person	...	Simon
Simon Eine	...	Lecointre
Isabelle Nanty	...	Reine Milliot

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

monarchy | marie antoinette | french revolution | trial

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Genres:

Drama | History

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

19 September 1990 (France)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Danon Audiovisuel S.A., Lira Films, Paradise Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the movie came out, it was advertised with a simple slogan: "Sale Etrangère!" (Dirty foreigner). Anti-racist leagues managed to have the ads removed and the movie subsequently flopped.

User Reviews

L'Autrichienne

The people of France hated Marie -Antoinette, "l'Autrichienne" (that Austrian woman).There were lots of books and movies about her ,more than about her husband Louis the Sixteenth).This one focuses on the last days of the queen ,her iniquitous trial -evidences were found in Vienna archives ,but at the time,there was none- and her death on the guillotine.

André Castelot is a celebrated French historian :his books about the queen are authoritative.However,there was no general agreement about the movie:some people complain about the view of the queen the scenarists gave .They said that her portrait was not neutral,that the queen was then a pitiful sick desperate woman and that her past was almost completely forgotten.

But the main asset of the movie is a use of a German actress as the lead.Neither Michèle Morgan nor Jane Seymour or Norma Shearer was that much credible as Austrian women.

NB "L'Autrichienne" belongs to the spate of movies which were made to commemorate the bicentennial of the French revolution.