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Release date United States: Friday, October 20, 2006, DVD release: TBA

Director: Sofia Coppola

Cast:

Kirsten Dunst as Marie-Antoinette
Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI
Rip Torn as King Louis XV
Judy Davis as Comtesse de Noailles
Asia Argento as Madame du Barry
Marianne Faithfull as Maria Theresia
Molly Shannon as Anne Victoire
Guillaume Gallienne as Comte Vergennes
Clementine Poidatz as Comtesse de Provence
Jamie Dornan as Axel von Fersen
Aurore Clément as La duchesse de Chartres
Steve Coogan as Count Mercy d'Argenteau

About:

Based on Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie Antoinette, a naïve 14-year-old Austrian and queen of France. At a young age, she was arranged to marry Louis XVI and was very unprepared for the woes of politics. She continued to be ridiculed by France and was decapitated during the French Revolution.

Genres:
Drama - Culture

Producers: Sofia Coppola Ross Katz

Writers: Antonia Fraser (book) Sofia Coppola (screenplay)

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