Die Bartholomäusnacht

A young queen caught between statecraft and passion. August 1572. For ten years, a murderous religious war has been raging in France between Catholics and Huguenots. Catherine de' Medici, the queen mother, seeks to temporarily restore peace in the country for political reasons. Surprisingly, she marries her 19-year-old daughter Marguerite to the young Protestant King Henri de Navarre. However, the wedding festivities, which attract nearly 10,000 Huguenots to Paris, become a trap for them: on the night of August 24, the "St. Bartholomew's Night," thousands of them are slaughtered, and the wave of murder continues across the country. Yet this grim tale of intrigue and betrayal in the dark corridors of the Louvre is illuminated by intense passions. The carefree Marguerite - soon to be called Queen Margot - whose beauty and education captivate all her contemporaries.