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.
Production
Gedeon Programmes · CNRS Images · ARTE · NHK · Planète+ · LRT · Česká televize · TV5 Monde
Cast & Characters
Jean-Noël Martin
Louis XIV vieux
Delphine Bechetoille
Reine Marie-Thérèse
Bertrand Chamerois
Nicodème Tessin
Clara Cirera
Dame d'honneur
Anouchka Csernakova
Anne d'Autriche
Charles Durot
Marquis de Sourde
Alice Gozlan
La Dauphine
Donat Guibert
Charles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)
Douglas Jouishomme
Louis XIV
Emmanuel Ménard
Courtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)
Olivier Pierre Richard
Secrétaire parlant
Geoffrey Finch
Narrator (English)
Directors & Crew
Marc Jampolsky
Director
Marc Jampolsky
Writer
Marie Thiry
Writer
Noah Morowitz
Writer
Screenshots & Stills
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