

13/10/1977
In a France fractured by court rivalries and personal ambitions, Richelieu moves without ornament. No flourish, no glory — only the cold machinery of power. Caught between a hesitant king, a nobility dreaming of defiance, and enemies multiplying on every front, the cardinal enforces his line: centralize, control, crush resistance. The series follows a strategist who doesn’t hide behind morality. He acts to keep the State standing, even if it means breaking those who stand in his way. Espionage, secret negotiations, decisive strikes… Richelieu plays a game where mistakes are fatal, and the survival of the kingdom rests on one man willing to go further than all the others

Marco Perrin
as Henri IV

Maria Wimmer
as Marie de Médicis

Maryvonne Schiltz
as Léonora Galigaï

Mireille Audibert
as La jolie dame de Paris

Georges Descrières
as Bellegarde

Michel Bertay
as Tisserand

Anne Deleuze
as Marie-Madeleine Combalet

Hans Caninenberg
as Ferdinand II

Jan Hendriks
as Butler

Werner Kreindl
as Illo

Alexander Kerst
as Gallas

Malte Thorsten
as Le cardinal infant

Jean-Pierre Bernard
as Maréchal Concini

Pierre Vernier
as Armand du Plessis de Richelieu

Marie-Christine Demarest
as Anne d'Autriche

Jacques Rosny
as Louis XIII
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