THE LAST KING

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Power and the Passion of Charles II; ; In the critically acclaimed tradition of Napoleon and Catherine the Great, A&E and the BBC bring to life on of history's most compelling figures - Great Britain's King Charles II. Bursting with romance and court intrigue amidst the lavish backdrop of the Restoration Period, The Last King is a star-studded tale of passion, politics and power.; ; A raucous gambler known as the merry Monarch, Charles II was a probable sex addict, an impassioned lover of the arts, a ruthless political survivor, and the ruler who swept England into a new era of modernism and democracy during the 17th century. In a story almost too action-filled and entertaining to be true, The Last King captures the dramatic, lust-filled saga of King Charles II - from his youthful exile in the Netherlands to his tumultuous 25-year reign ending in a secret deathbed conversion to Catholicism.; ; Featuring Rufus Sewell (A Knight's Tale, Helen of Troy, Dark City), Rupert Graves (The Madness of King George, A Room With a View), and Diana Rigg (Victoria & Albert, The Avengers), this is a must-see original A&E movie presentation available on DVD for the first time
• Cast: Martin Turner, Rufus Sewell, Ian McDiarmid, Rupert Graves, Michael Pober, Ryan Nelson, Diana Rigg, Sean Biggerstaff, Helen McCrory, Richard Rowlands, Charlie Creed-Miles, Peter Wight, Garry Cooper, Martin Freeman, Joel Sugerman, Sarah Cameron, Nick Bagnall, Jan Nemejovsky, Curtis Mathew, Vitezslav Bouchner, Christian Coulson, Robert East, Dorian Lough, Tabitha Wady, Shirley Henderson, Predrag Bjelac, Robert Cavanah, Alice Patten, Alan Williams, Graham McTavish, Robert Orr, Albert Welling, Robert Russell, David Bradley, Ryan James, David McKail, Richard Bremmer, Arthur Whybrow, Jenny Galloway, John Comer, Anne-Marie Duff, Thierry Perkins-Lyautey, Emma Pierson, Pip Torrens, Max Stewart, Lukas Trebicky, Carl Odoms, Shaun Dingwall, Donald Douglas, Thomas Q. Napper, Simon Woods, Cyrille Thouvenin, Mélanie Thierry, Wilfred Prager, Kristina Madericova, Jochum ten Haaf, Rob Jarvis, Eddie Marsan, Anthony O'Donnell, Robert Bowman, Andrew Woodall, Rhys Meredith, James Greene, Barbora Lukesová, Daniel Brown, Simon Treves, Brian Caspe, James Babson, Adam Bradley, Minja Filipovic, Zuzana Hodkova, Manouk van der Meulen, Joe Wright
• Director: Joe Wright
• Runtime: 3:08
• Company: A&E, BBC Films, Newvideo
• Media Format: movie