One Nation, One King (French: Un peuple et son roi) is a 2018 French film written and directed by Pierre Schoeller. It stars Adèle Haenel, Gaspard Ulliel, Laurent Lafitte and Louis Garrel, and shows the French Revolution in Paris from the storming of the Bastille to the execution of the King. The film made its world premiere out of competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 7 September 2018. It was released in France by StudioCanal on 26 September 2018.
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Plot
The film is a historical fresco dealing with the French Revolution, especially the first years of the period (1789–1793), and notably focusing on the role and the perception of the contemporaries of King Louis XVI in the tumult which engulfed France at the end of the Ancien Régime. The film looks at a number of historic figures of the time, such as Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins and Danton, in the Estates General, the National Constituent Assembly, and finally the National Convention.
Cast
Gaspard Ulliel as Basile
Louis Garrel as Maximilien de Robespierre
Adèle Haenel as Françoise Candole
Céline Sallette as Reine Audu
Laurent Lafitte as Louis XVI
Ruggero Barbera as le Dauphin Louis Charles
Maëlia Gentil as Marie-Antoinette
Denis Lavant as Jean-Paul Marat
Niels Schneider as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Izïa Higelin as Margot Laforce
Olivier Gourmet as Louis-Joseph Henri, called the Uncle.
Noémie Lvovsky as Solange, the Uncle's wife
Andrzej Chyra as Claude François Lazowski
Johan Libéreau as Tonin
Audrey Bonnet as femme Landelle
Thibaut Evrard as Stanislas-Marie Maillard
Jean-Marc Roulot as sectionnaire Lechenard
Grégory Gatignol as Clément l’Effaré
Cosme Castro as a patriot during the Storming of the Bastille
Vincent Deniard as Georges Jacques Danton
Jean-Charles Clichet as Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve
Julia Artamonov as Pauline Léon
Patrick Hauthier as François Henri, comte de Virieu
Philippe Chaine as Jean-Denis Lanjuinais
Rodolphe Congé as Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Jean-Pierre Duret as Gamon
Guillaume Marquet as Jean-Joseph Mounier, president of the Assemblée
Pierre-François Garel as Antoine Barnave
John Arnold as Nicolas de Condorcet
Jacques Ledran as Jacques Guillaume Thouret
Etienne Beydon as Camille Desmoulins
Grégoire Tachnakian as Antoine-François Momoro
Thibault Lacroix as Charles Varlet
Frédéric Norbert as César-Guillaume de La Luzerne, Bishop of Langres
Serge Merlin as Louis XI in the nightmare of Louis XVI
Patrick Préjean as Henry IV of France in the nightmare of Louis XVI
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Louis XIV in the nightmare of Louis XVI
Jacques Lacaze as Bertrand Barère
Release and reception
The film premiered out of competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 7 September 2018. It was the opening film of the 8th Festival de l'Ecrit à l'écran, and was screened at the 2018 23rd Busan International Film Festival.
Accolades
Festival du film politique de Porto-Vecchio 2018 : Jury des médias
44th César Awards
Nominated – César Award for Best Costume Design for Anaïs Romand
Nominated – César Award for Best Production Design for Thierry François