I R O N - THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK is a free adaptation of the classic by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), who made fiction a real story that took place in France, in the reign of the absolutist Louis ...

open mobile menu The Man in the Iron Mask Good versus evil - Alexandre Dumas' classic story about an imprisoned man in a hideous iron mask and his foppish, elegant twin brother, King Louis XIV of ...

For over 300 years, the story of the Man in the Iron Mask has baffled historians, inspired books, and fueled conspiracies. Who was he really? A forgotten prince? A secret twin? A political threat?

By the 18th century the number of possible identities kept increasing. Some said the man in the iron mask was a bastard son of Anne of Austria (Louis’s mother) and half brother to the king.

Alexandre Dumas recounted it in “The Vicomte of Bragelonne”, and Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed him – among others – in the movies. We’re talking about the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask, who was ...