This documentary explores Versailles as both a masterpiece of royal image-making and a symbol of a
monarchy on the edge of collapse.

Built to project absolute power, beauty, and control, the palace became the glittering stage on which
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette faced the final years of the French monarchy. Behind the gilded
halls and carefully crafted rituals, France was sinking into political, financial, and social crisis.

The film reveals the private world of the royal couple, the seductive splendor of Versailles, and the
growing distance between court life and the anger building beyond the palace gates.

A visually rich account of privilege, illusion, and revolution, this is the story of a monarchy trapped
between ceremony and catastrophe — and of the palace that became the backdrop to the fall of a
kingdom.