The read
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do. Most of the 7,172 2010s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes42%
Metacritic37/100
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
184 audience votes
Key crew
- Mika KaurismäkiDirector
- Michel Marc BouchardScreenplay
- Anssi TikanmäkiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Malin BuskaKristina
- Sarah GadonCountess Ebba Sparre
- Michael NyqvistChancellor Axel Oxenstierna
- Lucas BryantCount Johan Oxenstierna
- Laura BirnCountess Erika Erksein
- Hippolyte GirardotAmbassador Pierre Hector Chanut
- Peter LohmeyerBishop of Stockholm
- François ArnaudKarl Gustav Kasimir
- Patrick BauchauRené Descartes
- Martina GedeckMaria Eleonora
- Timo TorikkaPère Viogué
- Jarmo MäkinenThe General
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Themes
marriage proposalstrong womanqueenswedenpolitical negotiationsforbidden lovedutyheir to the thronesexismbased on true storyunrequited lovelove interest