Queen Christina (film)
1933 film by Rouben Mamoulian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 by Walter Wanger and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together.
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Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian |
Written by | S. N. Behrman (dialogue) |
Screenplay by | H. M. Harwood Salka Viertel |
Story by | Salka Viertel Margaret P. Levino |
Produced by | Walter Wanger |
Starring | Greta Garbo John Gilbert |
Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,114,000[1] |
Box office | $2,887,285[1] |
The film portrays the life of Queen Christina of Sweden, who became monarch at the age of six in 1632 and grew to be a powerful and influential leader. As well as coping with the demands of ruling Sweden during the Thirty Years' War, Christina is expected to marry a suitable royal figure and produce an heir. When she falls in love with a visiting Spanish envoy, whom she is forbidden to marry because he is a Roman Catholic, she must choose between love and her royal duty.
The film was a major commercial and critical success in the United States and worldwide.