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The fate of a woman forgotten by history
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.Read moreLess
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
The story
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
Cast & crew
Salomé DewaelsMarguerite de la Rocque
Louis PeresThomas d'Artois
Candice BouchetDamienne Latour
Alexandra LamyMarguerite de Navarre
Patrick DescampsJean-François de Roberval
Alexandre GavrasLe Roi François 1er
Eddy FrogeaisCardinal 2
Corentin LobetLe SecondExplore the crew
- Director
- Micha Wald
- Screenplay
- Samuel Malhoure
- Screenplay
- Agnès Caffin
- Screenplay
- Micha Wald
- Producer
- Anton Iffland Stettner
- Producer
- Eva Kuperman
- Editor
- Alain Dessauvage
- Director of Photography
- Joachim Philippe
- Original Music Composer
- Elie Rabinovitch
- Producer
- Eurydice Gysel