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Queen Christina (1933)
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Release Date:
9 February 1934 (USA)
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Plot:
Queen Christina of Sweden is a dominant European ruler in the 17th century, and has never thought of romance...
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Cross Dressing
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Marriage Proposal
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Snowing
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Awards:
1 nomination
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Exceptional Garbo performance in fine film biography
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Greta Garbo | ... | Queen Christina |
 | John Gilbert | ... | Antonio |
 | Ian Keith | ... | Magnus |
| Lewis Stone | ... | Oxenstierna |
| Elizabeth Young | ... | Ebba |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... | Aage |
| Reginald Owen | ... | Charles |
| Georges Renavent | ... | French Ambassador |
| David Torrence | ... | Archbishop |
| Gustav von Seyffertitz | ... | General (as Gustav Von Seyffertitz) |
| Ferdinand Munier | ... | Innkeeper |
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Runtime:
99 min (Turner library print)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G (TV rating) |
Sweden:11 (re-rating) (1964) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Australia:PG |
Sweden:15 |
USA:Approved |
UK:U (re-rating) (2005) (uncut) |
UK:U (re-rating) (2005)
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The scene where Christina goes around the room at the inn, remember the night she spent with her lover, was choreographed so meticulously that Greta Garbo performed the scene to a metronome.
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Goofs:
Continuity: The stagecoach wheel is shown bouncing out of a hole before it gets stuck.
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Quotes:
Queen Christina:
Must we live for the dead?
Oxenstierna: For the great dead, yes, Your Majesty.
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Oxenstierna: For the great dead, yes, Your Majesty.
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Referenced in Double or Nothing (1940)
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Although it is short on fact and large on fiction this beautiful biographical film of Sweden's Queen is a marvelous vehicle on its own, quite aside from containing one of Garbo's finest performances, second only to her Marguerite Gauthier in CAMILLE. She is strong, yet delicate in her portrayal of Christina. There are subtle undertones of lesbian tendencies and her scenes with John Gilbert are pulsating with true feeling for the man, though he is woefully inadequate as an actor opposite her. Her abdication scene is a classic, her movement about the inn room where she and her lover met, touching everything for memory's sake is another classic scene (exceptionally composed and lit) and her final close-up is yet another. This is a solid drama and a solid romance. Overlooked at the time of its release, it is now considered one of her finest films, exceptionally directed by master Rouben Mamoulian. Do not miss this one - a true cinema classic.