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• Cannes 2013 (Premiere)

Year of production : 1994

Director(s) : Patrice CHEREAU
Writer(s) : Danièle THOMPSON, Patrice CHEREAU
Cast : Daniel AUTEUIL, Isabelle ADJANI, Jean-Hugues ANGLADE, Pascal GREGGORY, Vincent PEREZ

Producer(s) : Claude BERRI

Margot is an heiress to the throne during the late 16th century reign of the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a time when Protestants and Catholics are vying for political control of France. Catherine decides to make an overture of good will by offering up Margot in marriage to
prominent Protestant Huguenot Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil), although she also schemes to bring about the notorious St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of 1572, when tens of thousands of Protestants are slaughtered.
The marriage goes forward but Margot doesn’t love Henri and takes a lover, the soldier La Mole (Vincent Perez), also a Protestant from a well-to-do family. Murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Catherine’s villainous plotting to place her son Anjou (Pascal Greggory) on the throne threatens the lives of La Mole, Margot and Henri.