Voltaire et l'affaire Calas French Historical Drama (2007) Voltaire and the Calas Affair Engl subs.

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1761 Toulouse. Marc Antoine Calas is found hanged in his family home. His father, the Calvinist Jean Calas, is unjustly accused of strangling him to prevent his conversion to Catholicism. After a sham trial, Jean Calas is sentenced to death. Broken on the wheel, he is strangled and burned. The writer Voltaire tirelessly rallied Enlightenment Europe to exonerate Calas... Starring: Claude Rich, Barbara Schulz, François Germond, Carlo Brandt, Pascale Rocard, Antoine Basler