Film
The Girl King
Canada · Finland · France · Germany · Sweden- Age rating
- 12
- Director
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Year
- 2015
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Top cast
Malin Buska
Kristina
Sarah Gadon
Countess Ebba Sparre
Michael Nyqvist
Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
Lucas Bryant
Count Johan Oxenstierna
Laura Birn
Countess Erika Erksein
Hippolyte Girardot
Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Peter Lohmeyer
Bishop of Stockholm
François Arnaud
Karl Gustav Kasimir
Patrick Bauchau
René Descartes
Martina Gedeck
Maria Eleonora
Timo Torikka
Père Viogué
Jarmo Mäkinen
The General
Petri Aulin
Guard
Janina Berman
Abortion Nurse
Samuli Edelmann
King Gustav II Adolf
Gabriele Goria
Second Italian Jesuit
Mikko Kouki
Aide de Camp
Mikko Leppilampi
Count Magnus de la Gardie
Directed by
Mika Kaurismäki
Written by
Michel Marc Bouchard
Produced by
Arnie Gelbart, Anna Stratton, Rainer Kölmel
