Congress

Director(s)

Virginie Berthier

Release

2016

Runtime

19 min.

August 1661. Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de la Suze, solicits from the ecclesiastical justice the holding of a Congress.

Congress: coitus ordered by an ecclesiastical judge, carried out in the presence of surgeons and matrons to see if a man was impotent with a view to dissolving a wedding.

      5 selections

      Festival Court en Scène
      Festival Combat
      Short Film Festival of Angoulême 2018
      FIFAVA Festival
      Maryland Film Festival

      Cast

      Valérie Thoumire
      Xavier Guerlin
      Dominique Laidet
      Marie Berto

      Produced by

      Easy Tiger

      In association with

      CNC
      Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
      Procirep
      Angoa