Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
2019•1h 31m•7.2•Released
DocumentaryHistory
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.
Director
Marc Jampolsky
Writer
Marie Thiry, Marc Jampolsky, Noah Morowitz
Languages
English, French
Studio
Gedeon Programmes
Cast
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)
Production
Company
Gedeon Programmes
Company
CNRS Images
Company
ARTE
Company
NHK
Company
Planète+
Company
LRT
Company
Česká televize
Company
TV5 Monde
Recommended
6.9
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
7.3
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
6.9
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
2013
7.8
Titanic: The Digital Resurrection
2025
7.2
Cover-Up
2025
8
The Lovely Month of May
1963
7.4
Love, Antosha
2019
6.3
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
2022
7.4
McQueen
2018
8.2
Shoah
1985
7.7
Adele One Night Only
2021
7.7
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
6.8
The Unknown Known
2013
7.6
42 Up
1999
6.8
Being Eddie
2025
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
7.3
Side by Side
2012
7.2
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
8.1
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
7.3
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
2026
Similar Movies
9
L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz
2025
7.3
Ultimate Space Telescope
2022
Degas à l'Opéra
2019
6.4
Louis, Martin & Michael
2003
7.5
Titanic's Fatal Fire
2017
The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction Interviews
2007
8.5
Ein Traum von Revolution
2024
8
Jean Marais par Jean Marais
1995
I Still Love Them
2010
8.5
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
Profile of a Writer: Borges
1983
7.5
The Painting
2019
8
Coast Modern
2012
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
2012
7
The Giza Pyramids: Reaching for the Stars
2023
Nothing Can Stop The Radiance
2024
7.7
Coluche, une époque formidable
2021
8.5
Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
2008
10
ABC Primetime: Mel Gibson's Passion
2004
8
Iznik, les mystères de la basilique engloutie
2024