(Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge)

Overview: This historic mini-series is set just after the execution of Louis XVI and follows the actions of a group of loyal royalists, led by the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge. His goal is to free Queen Marie-Antoinette and the young King Louis XVII, but he runs into the brutal jailer Simon who makes sure to thwart any attempt to escape. A secondary plot line deals with the feelings of Lindet, the lieutenant of the national guard, towards Geneviève, the young protege of the royalist Morand, which for the sans-culottes is a crime in itself.

Countries:

France,

Italy

Genres:

Networks:

ORTF Télévision

Year:

1963

Production companies:

RAI,

Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma,

ORTF

Actors:

Marie-Antoinette

Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

Raoul Dixmer

Fouquier-Tinville

Lorin

Crews: