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Monarch

  • Drama
  • History

October 8, 2000 (US)

1h 49m

One night of torment

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.

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