She is beautiful, she is Catholic, she is the King's sister, she is Marguerite of Valois. Her brother calls her Margot. He is Protestant, they say that he is rude, that he never shaves, that he smells of garlic and sweat. He is Henri of Navarre. They are forced to marry. It is a political move : to reconcile the French, ripped apart by the Wars of religion. They are three brothers : the eldest, King Charles IX , Anjou and the youngest, Alençon. They love Margot, they love her too much, with an ambiguous and possessive passion. Yet they are all present, laughing, dancing, pretending to have fun. The head of the family is Catherine of Medicis. She has taught her children about hypocrisy and given them the taste for power. During this terribly hot month of August, hate and fear will drown everything else. Because it is not Charles IX who rules, but Madame Catherine, and she loves Anjou. She wishes to give him a kingdom at peace. How far will she go ? All the way.
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Nef Filmproduktion, RCS, ARD/Degeto Film GMBH
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Executive Producer :
Adaptation :
Patrice Chéreau, Danièle Thompson
Author of original work :
Director of Photography :
Sound Assistant :
Camera operators :
Patrick de Ranter, Marc Koninckx, Myriam Touzé
Press Attaché (film) :
Sound editors :
Sylvie Gadmer, Gérard Hardy, Corinne Rozenberg
Production Assistant :
Production Designers :
Richard Peduzzi, Olivier Radot
Foley artist :
Casting :
Sound Mixer :
Location manager :
Assistant directors :
Dominique Furgé, Emmanuel Hamon, Jérôme Enrico
Dialogue Writer :
Line Producer :
Sound recordists :
Guillaume Sciama, Dominique Hennequin
Assistant Operators :
Francine Filatriau, Anne Nicolet, Dominique Delguste
Production Manager :
Editors :
François Gédigier, Hélène Viard
Assistant editors :
Marie-Blanche Colonna, Xavier Loutreuil, Laure Mercier, Claire Sels
Continuity supervisor :
Music Composer :
Stunt performers :
Jean-Louis Airola, Daniel Breton, Olivier Vitrant, Patrick Medioni, Pascal Guégan, Michel Carliez
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Technical details
Feature film
Genres :
FictionSub-genre :
Drama, Literary adaptation , HistoricalProduction language :
FrenchCoproducer countries :
France, Germany, ItalyOriginal French-language productions :
YesNationality :
Majority French (France, Germany, Italy)Production year :
1994French release :
13/05/1994Runtime :
2 h 39 minCurrent status :
ReleasedVisa number :
82.676 et 82.677Visa issue date :
13/01/1995Approval :
YesProduction formats :
35mmColor type :
ColorAspect ratio :
1.85Audio format :
Dolby SRPosters (1)
