Nostradamus (film)

Nostradamus
Directed by Roger Christian
Starring
Music by Barrington Pheloung
Production
company
Allied Entertainments
Vereinigte Film Partners
Distributed by Orion Classics (USA)
August Entertainment (UK)
Release date
 16 September 1994
Running time
 119 minutes
Country France
UK
Germany
Romania
Language English
Box office $364,164

Nostradamus is a 1994 biographical film about Nostradamus, directed by Roger Christian.

Plot

The film recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science at the University of Montpellier and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions of the future. The film is set in France in the 16th century during one of the periodic plague outbreaks (as opposed to the Black Death [mid-14th-century Europe] or the Black Plague [mid-17th-century London]). Nostradmus meets up with Scaliger in Agen, France.

Nostradamus prophecies the death of Henry II of France in a jousting match. Nostradamus also says that he "constantly has this word" Hister on his mind. The film depicts Nostradamus's rise in influence, because of both his success in treating plague and his predictions, culminating in his appointment as court physician to Charles IX of France (son of Henry II of France).

Cast


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