Movie
The Girl King
Overview
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Details
- Release date
- 2015-12-11
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Anagram Film, Starhaus Filmproduktion, Triptych Media, Marianna Films, Galafilm
- Country
- Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Malin Buska as Kristina
- Sarah Gadon as Countess Ebba Sparre
- Michael Nyqvist as Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
- Lucas Bryant as Count Johan Oxenstierna
- Laura Birn as Countess Erika Erksein
- Hippolyte Girardot as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
- Peter Lohmeyer as Bishop of Stockholm
- François Arnaud as Karl Gustav Kasimir
- Patrick Bauchau as René Descartes
- Martina Gedeck as Maria Eleonora
- Timo Torikka as Père Viogué
- Jarmo Mäkinen as The General
Crew
- Mika Kaurismäki - Director
- Michel Marc Bouchard - Screenplay
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