Marie Antoinette 4K 2006

The brilliant and tragic fate of the French queen Marie Antoinette will always amaze and horrify future generations. A carefree childhood in the household of her father, the Emperor of Austria. An early marriage at age 15—and to whom!—the heir to Louis XV himself! Her accession to the French throne at 19 and a youth filled with endless entertainment amid the luxury of Versailles. And finally, a sudden, horrific death by guillotine amid the jeers of the Parisian rabble. Historians say that Marie Antoinette paid with her head for hating and failing to understand the common people. But then we’d have to admit that this witty and extraordinary woman was a primitive shrew! The filmmakers behind this movie have a different version, one designed to shed light on all the dark corners of the biography of the most famous queen in French history...