Movie: Queen Christina (1933)
“Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at the end of the Thirty Years War. Like England’s Elizabeth I, Christina (Greta Garbo) is pressured into a politically correct marriage (her cousin) but she falls in love with an emissary from Spain (John Gilbert). As with her English counterpart, religion becomes a focal point with Protestant Sweden aghast that their queen could marry a Catholic. Written by Ed Lorusso”
- Director: Rouben Mamoulian
- Release Date: 9 February 1934 (USA)
- Run Time: 99 min (Turner library print)
- Country: USA
- Genre: Biography , Drama , History , Romance , War
Trivia: 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.
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: Christina’s musket pistol did not make a cloud of smoke.