80 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1870s
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Boule de Suif
π«π· France The 1870sFor the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute β A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
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Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
π©πͺ Germany The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sIn the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 β 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lakeβ¦
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Disraeli
England The 1870sDisraeli β Lover and Leader! β Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
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The New Babylon
π«π· France The 1870sIn the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
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Disraeli
England The 1870sThe story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.