La Marseillaise

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A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, s... Read allA news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.

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Pierre Renoir

Le Roi de France Louis XVI

Lise Delamare

La Reine Marie-Antoinette
(as Lise Delamare de la Comédie Française)

Louis Jouvet

Roederer, le procureur du département

Léon Larive

Picard, le valet du roi

William Aguet

Duque de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Elisa Ruis

La princesse de Lamballe

Marie-Pierre Sordet-Dantès

Le Dauphin

Yveline Auriol

La Dauphine

Pamela Stirling

Une suivante

Génia Vaury

Une suivante

Jean Aquistapace

Paul Giraud, le maire du village

Georges Spanelly

La Chesnaye
(as Spanelly)

Jaque Catelain

Le capitaine Langlade

Pierre Nay

Dubouchage

Edmond Castel

Leroux
(as Castel)

Werner Florian

Westerman
(as Werner Florian-Zach)

Aimé Clariond

Monsieur de Saint Laurent
(as Aimé Clariond de la Comédie Française)

Maurice Escande

Le seigneur du village

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Jean Renoir wrote about his link with the Popular Front movement, during the production of this film (1936-1938): "Il fut un moment où les Français crurent vraiment qu'ils allaient s'aimer les uns les autres. On se sentait porté par une vague de générosité." (Ma Vie et Mes Films, Flammarion, 1975) [For some time the French people did believe that they would love each other. One felt transported by a wave of generosity.]

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Edited into L'aquarium et la nation (2015)

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Musique ancienne
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Music by Michel-Richard De Lalande

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Summary of La Marseillaise

Jean Renoir's classic tribute to the glory of the French Revolution, the film captures the personal flavor of the struggle and the philosophical background to the revolutionary upheaval. In a rapid series of vignettes we are introduced to the elegance and nobility of the court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette... the contrasting plight of French peasants governed by laws they cannot understand...the storming of the Bastille in 1789 by an undisciplined mob...the plotting of France's exiled nobility to return to power...the Republican march on Paris...and the capture of the Tuilleries in 1793, ending the revolution. The film follows the adventures of two young patriots who join the Peoples' army in Marseilles. As their battalion begins its long journey north to Paris to join with the Federate army, they adopt as their anthem a song from the Army of the Rhine. This song was soon to be known all over France as "La Marseillaise" and would lead the newly unified nation to victory.