L'amour conjugal (1995)

• 55%
• 1995
• Drama
• Sami Frey
• Caroline Silhol
• Pierre Richard

This German tale, set in the 17th century chronicles the marriage between jahr wandering knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins " in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Hirsch who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan ' s first assignment is to kill the gambling rival of the count in a duel; Nathan obeys, but gets wounded in the process. Still he makes it back to his master and is expecting a generous reward. Instead, the count reviles the knight, invokes Louis XIII's ban on-duell, and orders Nathan beheaded. Nathan will have none of that. Despite his bleeding abdominal wound, he escapes into the countryside. Initially he finds shelter with his lifelong friend, a chalk maker; he then goes on to one of his patrons, an artist. Nathan is relegated to living in a humble-hut-in-the-wilds. Eventually he meets jahr impoverished noblewoman, Marhte von Lairac.