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L'Énergumène(2011)
Status: Released
Date: 2011-01-11
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A historical investigation that examines how, at the end of the 16th century, the devilish acts of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to refine their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and the state. Four historians dissect this plot hatched by ultra-Catholics against King Henry IV at this juncture in history marked by the end of the Wars of Religion and the birth of the state in an unstable society where the difficult genesis of a new world was looming. Our world.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
JBA Production
ARTE GEIE
Movie: L'Énergumène
Top 9 Billed Cast
Anna Mihalcea
Marthe Brossier
Mélissa Barbaud
Madeleine Brossier
Thierry Bosc
Michel Marescaut
Serge Merlin
Jacques Brossier
Stanislas Grassian
Bishop Henri de Gondi
Serge Feuillard
Cardinal d'Ossat
Perkins Lyautey
Exorcist Priest
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A historical investigation that examines how, at the end of the 16th century, the devilish acts of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to refine their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and the state. Four historians dissect this plot hatched by ultra-Catholics against King Henry IV at this juncture in history marked by the end of the Wars of Religion and the birth of the state in an unstable society where the difficult genesis of a new world was looming. Our world.
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