Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes

(1985)

Genres: Drama, History, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1985

Runtime: 51 мин

Country: France

Director: Bernard Kurt

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Marie-France Wecker, Marie Charpentier, Sylvie Fennec, Josiane Fritz, Jean Schmitt, Françoise Ulrich, Yvette Stahl

Plot

1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism are imprisoned in the Tower of Constance. Among them, Marie Durand, who would later become an icon of the Huguenots. All these women consumed by loneliness, illness and fear cling to only one idea: to resist.