at Cannes 2010 - German Film

New German Films
Screening:
Friday, 14 May, 17:30 h, Lérins 1
Saturday, 15 May, 09:30 h, Palais J
France, 1563. Protestants and Catholics are
fighting for land and power, invoking their religion
as justification. At the head of the
Protestants stands Henry of Navarre, leading his
men against Paris, against the Catholics, and
against his mother’s powerful rival, Catherine de
Medici, Queen of France. Catherine de Medici
offers Henry the hand of her daughter, Margot,
as a sign of reconciliation but the wedding ends
in a terrible bloodbath. Henry survives the St.
Bartholomew’s Day Massacre but is kept pris -
oner in the Louvre, until he escapes after four
long years. He will change religion five times in
the course of his life, fighting and resorting to
any tactics to climb his way to the throne. He
eventually becomes a monarch who can genu -
inely claim to be one of the first true humanists.
Henri 4
HENRY OF NAVARRE
Genre Drama, History, Literature Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director
Jo Baier Screen play Jo Baier, Cooky Ziesche, based on the novel by Heinrich Mann Director of
Photography Gernot Roll Editors Claus Wehlisch, Alexander Berner Music by Hans Zimmer & Henry
Jackman Production Design Klaus-Peter Platten, Christian Strang Produced by Regina Ziegler
Executive Producer Hartmut Koehler Producer Cooky Ziesche Production Company Ziegler
Film/Berlin, in co-production with Geteve/Paris, B.A. Produktion/Munich, Institut del Cinema Català/
Barcelona, Wega Film/Vienna, MMC Independent/Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg, BR/Munich, Degeto/
Frankfurt, MDR/Leipzig, NDR/Hamburg, SWR/Baden-Baden, WDR/Cologne, France 2/Paris, ARTE France
Cinema/Paris, ORF/Vienna, Televisió de Catalunya/Barcelona Principal Cast Julien Boisselier, Armelle
Deutsch, Hannelore Hoger, Chloé Stefani, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Ulrich Noethen Length 155 min
Format HD, color, cs Original Version French/German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SRD Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW,
German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German
Federal Film Board (FFA), MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, MEDIA
Jo Baier was born in 1949 in Munich and studied Drama, German and American Language Studies at the
Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He made more than 70 documentaries and TV features be fore turning
to feature films and has been working as a director since 1979. A selection of his award-winning films in -
cludes: Rauhnacht (TV, 1984), Schiefweg (TV, 1987), Wildfeuer (1991), Hoelleisengretl (TV,
1994), The Store (Der Laden, TV 1998), Wambo (TV, 2001), Schwabenkinder (TV, 2002),
Stauffenberg (TV, 2004), All Were Not Murderers (Nicht alle waren Moerder, TV, 2005),
Valentin (TV, 2007), and Henry of Navarre (Henri 4, 2009).
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