[1][2] It starred Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close,[3] and was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.

[5] Andrew Howard, John Light, and Rafe Spall played the warring brothers.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the king of France and Julia Vysotskaya, his sister and Henry's mistress, Princess Alais.

[1][3] In the year 1183, Henry II of England, who also rules large parts of France within his Angevin Empire, has invited his three surviving sons, his imprisoned and estranged wife Eleanor and the king of France, who has recently come of age, to join him at his Christmas court at Chinon Castle.

Brian Lowry of Variety wrote that the film "is a long sit but nevertheless a rewarding one".