Directed by Patrice Chéreau | Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Isabelle Adjani

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.