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Director(s):
GOBLOT (PASCAL)
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Producer(s):
FILMS D'ICI (LES), ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2020
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Language(s):
German, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
The assassination of Henri IV, peacemaking and reformist king, is as much a canonical scene in the History of France as it is a decisive break in political modernity. And first of all because it is a newsworthy event with an almost global dimension. We know that its spread to the “four corners of the world” is an indication of an open, if not connected, world.
Ravaillac was a former valet radicalized by Catholic mysticism. His gesture could be seen as the last embers of the Wars of Religion that followed the emergence of Protestantism; but it was also an expression of powerlessness in the face of a highly contested royal figure.