“She was the wife of a king… and the lover of a soldier.”
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Patrice Chéreau
Claude Berri
Patrice Chéreau
Danièle Thompson
Philippe Rousselot
Goran Bregović
Isabelle Adjani
Margot
Daniel Auteuil
Henri de Navarre
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Charles IX
Vincent Perez
La Môle
Virna Lisi
Catherine de Médicis
Dominique Blanc
Henriette de Nevers
Pascal Greggory
Anjou
Claudio Amendola
Coconnas
Miguel Bosé
Guise
Asia Argento
Charlotte de Sauve
Julien Rassam
Alençon
Thomas Kretschmann
Nançay
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Despite the fact that for much of this I hadn't really much of a clue who was trying to outmanoeuvre whom, I thoroughly enjoyed this historical dose of state sponsored murder and mayhem. Presided over by the imperiously devious Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi) we follow the machinations at the Frenc...
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