Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Si Versailles m'était conté
Drama, History, Comedy • 2h 45m
Overview
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Director: Sacha Guitry
Cast: Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jeanne Boitel, Gilbert Bokanowski, Bourvil, Pauline Carton, Gino Cervi, Jean Chevrier, Aimé Clariond, Claudette Colbert, Nicole Courcel, Danièle Delorme, Yves Deniaud, Jean Desailly, Renée Devillers, Daniel Gélin, Fernand Gravey, Sacha Guitry, Pierre Larquey, Jean Marais, Georges Marchal, Lana Marconi, Mary Marquet, Gaby Morlay, Claude Nollier, Gisèle Pascal, Jean-Claude Pascal, Gérard Philipe, Édith Piaf, Micheline Presle, Jean Richard, Tino Rossi, Louis Seigner, Raymond Souplex, Maurice Teynac, Jean Tissier, Charles Vanel, Orson Welles, Louis Arbessier, Jacques Berthier, Georges Chamarat, Annie Cordy, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Albert Duvaleix, Samson Fainsilber, Tania Fédor, Jacques François, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Gilbert Gil, Marie Mansart, Nicole Maurey, Jacques Morel, Jean Murat, Constant Rémy, Germaine Rouer, Jacques Varennes, Howard Vernon, Martine Alexis, Paul Azaïs, Jean-Louis Allibert, Brigitte Bardot, Lily Baron, Liliane Bert, Roland Bourdin, Jany Castel, André Chanu, Anne Carrère, Claudy Chapeland, René Charles, France Delahalle, Jacques Derives, Bernard Dhéran, Émile Drain, Alain Durtal, Cécile Eddy, Robert Favart, Jacques de Féraudy, Roger Gaillard, Lucienne Granier, Robert Hommet, Marcel Journet, Pierre Lord, Jacques Mafioly, Olivier Mathot, Gérard Moryn, Lucien Nat, Gilles Quéant, Fernand René, Gaston Rey, Philippe Richard, Vanna Urbino, René Worms, Pierre Would, Jacqueline Maillan, Frédéric Rossif, Guy Tréjan
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: George Roy Hill
Director: George Roy Hill
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Rob Reiner
Director: Rob Reiner
Edit History
Made with ❤️ 📀 by vanshady