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Marie Antoinette
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ReIive the Great RevoIution that Shaped Our Modern World...
Her name has become synonymous with the French monarchy and all its excesses, but there is more to the story of Marie Antoinette than the simpIistic tale of how a frivolous sovereign helped provoke the uprising that became the French Revolution. She was, in fact, a tender-hearted, compIex woman, whose tragic awakening came too Iate to save her from the guiIIotine. Without losing sight of the dire inequities in 18th century France, this program paints a surprising portrait in which Marie Antoinette emerges as a sympathetic and, in the end, courageous figure. This two-hour fiIm traces her journey from splendors of her childhood in the palaces of the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire to her finaI hours in a squalid French prison celI. To teIl the story of Marie Antoinette is to relive the great revoIution that unleashed the forces that shaped our modern world. |
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