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Queen Christina

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Queen Christina
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NR,1hr 41min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Released:
December 26, 1933
Director:
Rouben Mamoulian
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith  ...more
Synopsis: If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most luxuriously romantic of her talkie features. The star is cast as 17th-century Swedish queen Christina, who feels that she can best function in a male-dominated world by adopting men's clothes and attitudes (this cross-dressing element adds a subliminally gay subtext which curiously makes the subsequent events all the more poignant). Fiercely devoted to her country and the welfare of ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Displaying the full range of Greta Garbo's mystique, Queen Christina (1933) is usually considered one of Garbo's best works, as well as her most erotically complex. Working from the true story of the 17th century Swedish queen who abdicated her throne for love, MGM surrounded Garbo with the kind of beautifully detailed period sets and costumes for which it was known in the 1930s, including Christina's ... Full Review
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Greta Garbo
Queen Christina
John Gilbert
Don Antonio de la Prada
Ian Keith
Count Magnus
Lewis Stone
Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
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