| Louis, after the capture of Maastricht led his army southwards into Lorraine and overran the electorate of Trier. |
| Some reviewers have recoiled in horror from the film, denouncing von Trier as a misogynist, a fake, a show-off, an incompetent director, and worse. |
| He was born in Kues, now Bernkastel-Kues, about 30 km from Trier, an old town in the Palatinate, founded by the Romans. |
| Von Trier did forego the zoom-in camera on a crane for which Hollywood dance production numbers are cosmetically arranged. |
| It appointed loyal servants of the state to the bishoprics of Cologne and Trier and established a new university at Bonn, with a Protestant theological faculty. |
| It was filmed in sequence on digital video rather than film, and von Trier resisted the urge to reshoot scenes if it would break the continuity. |
