QUEEN CHRISTINA - DVD-WARNER ARCHIVE COLELCTION

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• Release Year: 1933
• Genre: Classic, Drama
• Plot: To escape the burdens of rule, Sweden’s Queen Christina rides into the countryside disguised as a boy. There she meets and secretly falls for a dashing Spanish envoy on his way to the royal court. Imagine the envoy's delighted surprise when he and the young 'nobleman' must share a bed at an overcrowded inn.; ; Greta Garbo gives a luminous performance in this lavish costume drama, starring with her one-time off-screen fiancé John Gilbert and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. 'It had been so enchanting to be a woman, not a queen. Just a woman in a man's arms,' Christina murmurs to her lover when her true identity is revealed. But she knows her people will not accept her marriage to a foreigner. Torn between her duty and her heart, she must make a fateful decision.
• Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Georges Renavent, David Torrence, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Ferdinand Munier, Richard Alexander, Hooper Atchley, Barbara Barondess, Wade Boteler, James Burke, Cora Sue Collins, Muriel Evans, Edward Gargan, Sam Harris, Paul Hurst, Gladden James, Fred Kohler, Frank McGlynn Jr., Edward Norris, Bodil Rosing, Tiny Sandford, C. Montague Shaw, Akim Tamiroff, Rouben Mamoulian, H.M. Harwood, Salka Viertel, Margaret P. Levino, S.N. Behrman, Harvey Gates, Ben Hecht, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West
• Director: Rouben Mamoulian
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie