Louis XI: Shattered Power (2011 Film)

Louis XI, le pouvoir fracassé (original title) is a 2011 French TV movie directed by Henri Helman. Audio French with English subtitles.

In August 1483, a mysterious messenger arrives at the castle in Touraine, where Louis XI - now old and sick - sits. The messenger reveals a conspiracy: that the King will soon be assassinated by his own lords.

Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent", was King of France from 1461 to 1483. When Charles VII died in 1461, Louis left the Burgundian court to take possession of his kingdom. His taste for intrigue and his intense diplomatic activity earned him the nicknames "the Cunning" and "the Universal Spider", as his enemies accused him of spinning webs of plots and conspiracies. Henri Helman, reading the biography of Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI, the universal spider (1974), discovered a less cruel king than the myth (ugly tyrant, deceitful and cruel with his "girls") of the modern times and tries to give a more positive image in the movie.

Cast & Characters:
Jacques Perrin as Louis XI
Florence Pernel as Anne de France
Gaëlle Bona as Jeanne de France
Bruno Debrandt as Louis d'Orléans
Jean-Pierre Malo as Capitaine Guillaume
Denis Sylvain as Pierre de Beaujeu
Grégory Fitoussi as Clément de Saudre
Éric Bougnon as Sauveterre
Roland Copé as Archevêque de Bellême
Mathieu Simonet as Philippe d'Anjou