Voltaire (1933)

Directors

John G. Adolfi

Cast

Alan Mowbray, David Torrence, Doris Kenyon, Doris Lloyd, George Arliss, Gordon Westcott, Leonard Mudie, Margaret Lindsay, Murray Kinnell, Reginald Owen, Theodore Newton

The story

In pre-Revolutionary France, Voltaire champions the oppressed commoners and tries to warn King Louis XV about the growing unrest among his subjects. The writer has a powerful ally in Madame Pompadour, Louis' mistress, but the Count de Sarnac opposes him for his own ends. When Voltaire pleads for the life of Calas, unjustly accused of treason, Louis is inclined to pardon the man, but Sarnac persuades him that it would be a sign of weakness, and Calas is swiftly executed.

Genres

Film metadata comes from the open sources listed in Credits & Contact. Catalogue details may be incomplete.

Your lists

Loading your lists…