L'Énergumène 2011 Directed by Jean-Loïc Portron

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.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Language French
Gnere Documentary
Production Companies ARTE GEIE , JBA Production
Release Date 11 January 2011
Cast
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