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.
- 7.2
- 1994
- Released
- 2h 18m
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
Jean-Claude Brialy
Coligny
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Condé
Albano Guaetta
Orthon
Johan Leysen
Maurevel
Dörte Lyssewski
Marie Touchet
Michelle Marquais
Nursemaid
Laure Marsac
Antoinette
Alexis Nitzer
Advisor #1
Emmanuel Salinger
Du Bartas
Jean-Marc Stehlé
InnkeeperOtto Tausig
Mendès
Bruno Todeschini
ArmagnacTolsty
Executioner
Bernard Verley
Cardinal
Ulrich Wildgruber
RenéLaurent Arnal
Gérard Berlioz
Christophe Bernard
Marian Blicharz
Pierre Brilloit
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Cécile Caillaud
Marc Citti
Grégoire Colin
Jean Douchet
Philippe Duclos
Marina Golovine
Zygmunt Kargol
Carlos López
Orazio Massaro
Roman Massine
Charlie Nelson
Bernard Nissile
Julie-Anne Roth
Jean-Michel Tavernier
Béatrice Toussaint
Mélanie Vaudaine
Nicolas Vaude
Luís Gaspar
(Uncredited)
Released
fr
$1,318,578.00
- #paris, france
- #based on novel or book
- #marriage of convenience
- #royalty
- #conspiracy
- #palace intrigue
- #16th century
- #religious persecution
- #st. bartholomew's day massacre
- #french history
Reviews
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 French court of her sons as they vie for power in France and in Navarre whilst reconciling the growing nu