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Name: Queen Christina
Released: 1934-2-9
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young

Queen Christina

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1h 41m
1934

81%

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Greta Garbo stars in one of her greatest roles, as the 17th century Swedish queen fiercely devoted to her country who fights at the head of her army like a man but who loves like a woman--Queen Christina. Crowned queen when she was five years old, the beautiful Christina (Garbo) leads a sexually ambiguous life as she fights to defend her Protestant country against the Counterreformation, dressing as a man and vowing to live as a bachelor. Christina has built her country into a formidable military power, defeating the armies of the Vatican and threatening Russia, and she has agreed to wed the King of Spain--not for love, but to guarantee her country's peace and security. But Christina loses her heart to the King's ambassador (John Gilbert)--and she must choose between her duty to her country and the man she loves.

Director:

Rouben Mamoulian

Producer:

Walter Wanger

Writer:

H.M. Harwood, S.N. Behrman, Margaret P. Levino, Salka Viertel

Cast:

Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Georges Renavent, David Torrence, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Ferdinand Munier

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Reviews

The New Republic

Otis Ferguson

The whole play falls down, echoing falsely. Its essential crumbling, of course, has come about not because it is poor history but because it has nothing satisfactory to give in history's place.

A one-woman show that just happens to include a cast of hundreds.

Beyond the ridiculousness of certain situations, of their primitive and naïve character... the film does radiate lost nobility and elegance, a simplicity that can suddenly and naturally achieve greatness.

[Garbo] contrives, though Heaven knows how, to surpass all the badness they thrust upon her.

The chief reason that Miss Garbo is so disappointing in Queen Christina is that the picture itself is not what it should be. namely, a picture.

November 24, 2020

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