Movie
Victoria & Abdul
Overview
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Details
- Release date
- 2017-09-13
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Working Title Films, BBC Film, Perfect World Pictures, Cross Street Films, Focus Features, India Take One
- Country
- India, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Judi Dench as Queen Victoria
- Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Sir Henry Ponsonby
- Suzy Eddie Izzard as Bertie, Prince of Wales
- Adeel Akhtar as Mohammed
- Michael Gambon as Lord Salisbury
- Paul Higgins as Dr. James Reid
- Olivia Williams as Baroness Churchill
- Fenella Woolgar as Miss Phipps
- Julian Wadham as Alick Yorke
- Jonathan Harden as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Robin Soans as Arthur Bigge
Crew
- Stephen Frears - Director
- Lee Hall - Screenplay
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