Recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science 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]). 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.
Release Date: 16 September 1994Runtime: 127 min
Stars:
- Amanda Plummer
- Anthony Higgins
- Assumpta Serna
- Bruce Alexander
- Bruce Myers
- Diana Quick
- F. Murray Abraham
- Julia Ormond
- Leon Lissek
- Magdalena Ritter
- Maia Morgenstern
- Michael Byrne
- Michael Gough
- Rutger Hauer
- Tchéky Karyo
Director: Roger Christian
