Benoît Magimel stars as Louis XIV, alongside Boris Terral as Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tchéky Karyo as Molière.

The film is a French-Belgian-German coproduction.

Louis's adoption of the "Sun" persona was a deliberate act of political theater designed to place himself at the center of the universe.

The film also depicts the collaboration between Lully and Molière , whose satirical plays and "comédie-ballets" became central to the cultural identity of the "Great Century". Legacy of the "Sun King" Era

Louis XIV's patronage led to the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse , which standardized ballet techniques and established French as the international language of the art form.