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Triumphant Return To The Screen! - Queen Christina
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Title: Queen Christina

Release Date: 26 Dec 1933

Runtime: 1h 39m

Genre: Romance, History, Drama

Director: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.807 (122 votes)

Cast

  • Christina: Greta Garbo
  • Antonio: John Gilbert
  • Magnus: Ian Keith
  • Oxenstierna: Lewis Stone
  • Ebba: Elizabeth Young
  • Aage: C. Aubrey Smith
  • Charles: Reginald Owen
  • Archbishop: David Torrence
  • The General: Gustav von Seyffertitz
  • French Ambassador: Georges Renavent
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