Film

L'Énergumène

2011 · Documentary

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.

Anna Mihalcea

Marthe Brossier

Mélissa Barbaud

Madeleine Brossier

Thierry Bosc

Michel Marescaut

Serge Merlin

Jacques Brossier

Stanislas Grassian

Bishop Henri de Gondi

Philippe Awat

Alexandre de La Rochefoucault

Serge Feuillard

Cardinal d'Ossat

Perkins Lyautey

Exorcist Priest

Thibault Corrion

Benoït de Canfeld

• Jean-Loïc PortronWriter · Director
• Marianne DumoulinProducer
• Jacques BidouProducer
• Hélène LouvartDirector of Photography
• Valentin PortronOriginal Music Composer
• Stéphane HuterEditor

Release date

January 11, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

French

Genres

Documentary