A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
as Marshall Jérémie Boutre
as Cabries
as the priest
as Lezin
as Louis
as the notary
as the man with pigs
as Marie
as Boutre's dreamed wife
as the fisherman
as the grieving woman
as the captain
as the mermaid
as Cabries (singing voice)
as Narrator (voice)
