Henry of Navarre / Henri 4
"This rollicking and rowdy take on French history never bores as it cuts between Ridley Scott-style battle scenes, violent bouts of sex and scenes of court intrigue." Boyd van Hoeij (Variety)
Genre History, Literature, Drama
Year of Production 2009
Director Jo Baier
Principal Ulrich Noethen, Hannelore Hoger, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Chloé Stefani, Armelle Deutsch, Julien Boisselier
Length 155 mins
France, 1563. Protestants and Catholics are fighting for land and power, invoking their religion as justification. At the head of the Protestants stands Henry of Navarre, leading his men against Paris, against the Catholics, and against his mother‘s powerful rival, Catherine de Medici, Queen of France. Catherine de Medici offers Henry the hand of her daughter, Margot, as a sign of reconciliation but the wedding ends in a terrible bloodbath. Henry survives the St. Bartholomew‘s Day Massacre but is kept prisoner in the Louvre, until he escapes after four long years. He will change religion five times in the course of his life, fighting and resorting to any tactics to climb his way to the throne. He eventually becomes a monarch who can genuinely claim to be one of the first true humanists.
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Sun 20 Nov, 6.45pm, The Cathay |
| Rating R21 - Violence and Sexual Scenes |
Fatih Akin – born in 1973 to Turkish parents. He studied Visual Communications at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2000. From his earliest short films his works have received numerous awards, including the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlinale as well as the German and European Film Prize for Head-On.
The Edge of Heaven premiered in the 2007 competition section in Cannes and was awarded Best Screenplay and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
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