Le prophète

About the show

Jean de Leyde, a Dutch innkeeper, is drawn into an Anabaptist uprising after Count Oberthal abducts his fiancée Berthe and threatens his mother Fidès. The movement’s leaders proclaim Jean a prophet and king in Münster, where he takes power and later confronts Fidès. He repents and reunites with Berthe and his mother, but when imperial forces and the Anabaptists turn against him, Berthe dies and Jean destroys the palace, killing those inside.