Queen Christina DVD Krisztina Királynő / Directed by Rouben Mamoulian / Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone / Black & White

UPC 5996514016369

REGION 2 PAL DVD - BLACK & WHITE

MADE IN Hungary

AUDIO: English MONO, German MONO, Spanish MONO

SUBTITLES: Hungarian, English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, English HOH, German HOH

Total Runtime: 97 minutes

English Summary:

Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 by Walter Wanger and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together.

Queen Christina of Sweden (Greta Garbo) is very devoted to her country and the welfare of her people. As queen, Christina favors peace for Sweden. She argues convincingly for an end to the Thirty Years' War, saying:

Spoils, glory, flags and trumpets! What is behind these high-sounding words? Death and destruction, triumphals of crippled men, Sweden victorious in a ravaged Europe, an island in a dead sea. I tell you, I want no more of it. I want for my people security and happiness. I want to cultivate the arts of peace, the arts of life. I want peace and peace I will have!

Christina, who first took the throne at age six upon the death of her father in battle, is depicted as so devoted to both governing well and educating herself that she has spurned any kind of serious romance or marriage despite pressures from her councilors and court to marry her hero-cousin Karl Gustav (Reginald Owen) and produce an heir. One day, in an effort to escape the restrictions of her royal life, she sneaks out of town, disguised as a man, and ends up snowbound at an inn, where she has to share a bed with also stranded Spanish envoy Antonio (John Gilbert) on his way to the capital. After befriending, and upon revealing that she is a woman, then sharing the same bed, the two fall in love; however, she still has not revealed that she is the queen. After a few idyllic nights together, Christina and Antonio are compelled to part, but Christina promises to find him in Stockholm – which she does, when the Spaniard presents his embassy to the Queen, whom he recognizes as his lover. Antonio is angry as he has come to present an offer of marriage from the King of Spain to Queen Christina and feels that his loyalty to the king has been compromised. She makes clear that she will not accept the king's proposal, and Christina and Antonio patch up their differences.

Hungarian Summary:

A harmincéves háború idején. Kriszina, Svédország királynője rendkívüli asszony: férfiruhát visel, féktelen és szabadságszerető, nem hajlandó férjhez menni. Amikor beleszeret a spanyol követbe, személyes boldogságában megfeledkezik uralkodói kötelességéről, és elhagyja a népét. 

Cast / Szereplők:

• Greta Garbo as Christina, Queen of Sweden
• John Gilbert as Antonio
• Ian Keith as Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
• Lewis Stone as Axel Oxenstierna
• Elizabeth Young as Countess Ebba Sparre
• C. Aubrey Smith as Aage
• Reginald Owen as Charles X Gustav of Sweden
• Georges Renavent as Chanut, the French Ambassador
• David Torrence as Archbishop
• Gustav von Seyffertitz as General
• Ferdinand Munier as Innkeeper