The Girl King
2015, Film, 106 min, Biography, Drama, History, English, Canada, MoviePedia score 63
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.
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Cast
- Malin Buska as Queen Kristina
- Sarah Gadon as Countess Ebba Sparre
- Michael Nyqvist as Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
- Lucas Bryant as Count Johan Oxenstierna
- Laura Birn as Countess Erika Erksein
- Hippolyte Girardot as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
- Peter Lohmeyer as Bishop of Stockholm
- François Arnaud as Karl Gustav Kasimir
- Patrick Bauchau as René Descartes
- Ville Virtanen as Doctor Van Wullen
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