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Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20247/10
Greta Garbo is great in this speculative depiction of the life of the famed Queen of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals! Acceding to the throne after the death of her warrior king father, she spends much of her reign engaged in the Thirty Years War that ended with Sweden being a pre-eminent power in a battle-torn Europe. The arrival of her army commanding cousin, Prince Charles (Reginald Owen) gives rise to hope amongst the population the she will soon marry him. She, on the other hand, has no plans to be bounced into matrimony. Indeed, she has no plans to keep the war going either, so despatching her chancellor (Lewis Stone) to peace talks, she invites a new Spanish Ambassador (John Gilbert) to her court. Meantime, her domestic suitor "Magnus" (Ian Keith) is pressing his own suit, her confidant "Ebba" (Elizabeth Young) earns her enmity with a clumsily delivered conversation with her own lover and so she sets off into the snow with her aide "Aage" (C. Aubrey Smith) where a chance encounter changes the course of not just her own destiny, but that of her country too. If you know a bit about the history, then you will have an inkling as to what happens - an epitome of politicking, romance
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Cast
- Greta GarboChristina
- John GilbertAntonio
- Ian KeithMagnus
- Lewis StoneOxenstierna
- Elizabeth YoungEbba
- C. Aubrey SmithAage
- Reginald OwenCharles
- David TorrenceArchbishop
- Gustav von SeyffertitzThe General
- Georges RenaventFrench Ambassador
Crew
- Rouben MamoulianDirector
- Salka ViertelScreenplay
- H.M. HarwoodScreenplay
- Claudine WestScreenplay
- Ben HechtWriter
- William H. DanielsDirector of Photography
- Blanche SewellEditor
- Walter WangerProducer
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