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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier is known for adapting Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, the book by Stefan Zweig published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Stefan Zweig, 1932
movie vs book
W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, 1938
In 1769 Vienna, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria tells her daughter Maria Antonia she is to marry the Dauphin Louis-Auguste. On her second wedding anniversary, Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s mistress, gifts Marie with an empty cradle and a poem critical of her inability to produce an heir.