Sophie Marceau chooses between crown and country while her dad builds weird flying machines.
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
Costume
Revolutionary chic meets royalist drip, absolutely unhinged waistcoats.
Production
Those flying machine contraptions are steampunk before steampunk existed.
Director
Philippe de Broca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Broca supposedly cast Sophie Marceau after seeing her in a yogurt commercial. French cinema, everyone.
The Chouannerie remains politically loaded in France; this film's sympathetic royalist lens caused actual controversy upon release.
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