To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Ridicule is of 1 hour(s) and 42 minute(s). It is Produced By: Epithète Films. It was released on 1996-05-09. It has the tagline: Wit is the ultimate weapon. It has an average vote of 6.941 on TMDB.
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