Queen Christina

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Queen Christina (1933)

NR 12/26/1933 (US) Romance, History, Drama 1h 39m

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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.

Rouben Mamoulian

Director, Screenplay
Salka Viertel

Screenplay, Story
Claudine West

Screenplay
H.M. Harwood

Screenplay
Margaret P. Levino

Story
Ben Hecht

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Greta Garbo

Christina
John Gilbert

Antonio
Ian Keith

Magnus
Lewis Stone

Oxenstierna
Elizabeth Young

Ebba
C. Aubrey Smith

Aage
Reginald Owen

Charles
David Torrence

Archbishop
Gustav von Seyffertitz

The General
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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 h... read the rest.

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