Die Mätresse Des Teufels

2008

Drama

Kurz nach ihrer ersten Eheschließung gerät Lady Angelica Fanshawe in die Wirren des von Oliver Cromwell angeführten Bürgerkriegs. Obwohl sie mit den Ideen der sogenannten Gleichmacher sympathisiert, steht sie als Müdel des Königs treu zu diesem. Erst nachdem sie und ihr Mann in Ungnade gefallen sind und der König ihren Mann hinrichten lässt, wendet sich Angelica vollends der Sache der Revolution zu und beginnt eine Affäre mit Colonel Thomas Rainsborough. Inzwischen ist sie wegen ihrer offen vertretenen Meinung und einer in Notwehr begangenen Tötung als des Teufels Hure bekannt.

Andrea Riseborough Dominic West Tom Goodman-Hill John Simm Maxine Peake Michael Fassbender Rob van Vuuren Peter Capaldi Tim McInnerny Adrian Schiller Al Weaver Peter Terry

Staffeln

19.11.2008

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Part One
19.11.2008 · 62 Min.
After Angelica Fanshawe's country noble mother chooses the Catholic faith over the Anglican law of England, her daughter becomes a royal ward of King Charles I, who allows her love marriage to childhood friend and cousin Harry Fanshawe. But social resistance to the king's absolutism, till then maintained by whip in an iron hand, culminates in a parliamentary rebellion, which spills to utter civil war. It means their utter downfall, Harry being executed because his royalist troops capitulated to military genius Oliver Cromwell's while their estate hosts the royal court on permanent flight.
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Part Two
26.11.2008 · 53 Min.
The people of the besieged city of Oxford are in a desperate situation. Devastated by the King's brutal betrayal, Angelica is cast out of court, and finds herself destitute and starving. Meanwhile, divisions are beginning to split the Parliamentarians.
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Part Three
03.12.2008 · 52 Min.
With Cromwell's regime firmly established and maintained by bloody military terror, its illegality is obvious to many, including Honest John Lilburn, who ends up siding with the opposition, yet secures acquittal at his jury trial despite hostile turncoat judges he brilliantly exposes. Meanwhile, Edward Sexby accepts a colonel-ship to defend England's backdoor in the Irish campaign, and remains loyal despite Cromwell making a liar of him by denying his mediating promises to mutineers, the leaders of which he executes. Angelica is nearly executed and separates from Harry in order to join the egalitarian diggers.
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Part Four
10.12.2008 · 51 Min.
Cromwell's rule is ever more bloody and controversial, nobody feeling safe anymore amongst factions and treason, yet the Lord Protector achieves a monarchy in all but name. Lillburne is jailed for life without trial. Sexby resigns has colonel's commission on account of his war-wrecked hand. Plotting and discovered intrigues make many fatal victims, including Joliffe. Angelica survives everybody, alone but for Sexby's posthumous daughter.