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This is an invaluable historically absolutely correct account of the tragic French queen's last 76 days before she was executed after one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in history, the entire jury being thoroughly partial and the sentence settled in advance - almost all the enactors of the trial were later decapitated by the guillotine in the course of the derailing monstrous death apparatus of the French revolution, which started well and promising but which quickly bolted on a wild reckless course of incessantly accelerated violence. The film is horrible in its exposure of the inhuman cruelty of all the leading revolutionaries, while all the good ones were decapitated first. It's a kind of anatomy of inhumanity, while the actors are all impressingly magnificent, especially Marie Antroinette herself, who couldn't have been made better and more convincing. Warning against some unbearable scenes, that show how her son was treated after having been taken away from her, gradually being driven to his death, Louis XVII, not more than ten years old.