Director : Patrice LeconteActors : Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau, Judith Godrèche, Gérard Hardy, Urbain Cancelier, Marie Pillet, Philippe Magnan, Carlo BrandtFeature film, Fiction Production language : French Nationality : 100% French French release : 5/9/96 Runtime : 1h 42mn Current status : Released Associate production company : Epithète Films, CinéaCo-production : France 3 CinémaFrench distribution : Polygram Film export/Foreign Sales : Polygram Film International Synopsis Versailles, 1780. The Court of Louis XVI and its antechambers with their blend of power and hope: the power of the ministers and great men of the kingdom, the hope of hundreds of supplicants from the lower nobility. Everything is given at Versailles: orders, ribbons and crosses with pensions, honorary titles and administrative missions... Since the number of privileges is modest compared to the number of supplicants, a stock exchange of respect is founded where each man has his value. What else other than Wit can alter these values in a sophisticated and idle society... Festival selections Awards > Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 1997 :
- Best Film
> Lumiere Awards - 1997 :
- Lumiere Award for Best Film | 
