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MARGRETE - QUEEN OF THE NORTH

by Charlotte Sieling

synopsis

1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union.

international title: Margrete - Queen of the North
original title: Margrete den første
country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Iceland
sales agent: REinvent Studios
year: 2021
genre: fiction
directed by: Charlotte Sieling
screenplay: Jesper Fink, Maya Ilsøe, Charlotte Sieling
cast: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro, Bjørn Floberg, Magnus Krepper
cinematography by: Rasmus Videbæk
film editing: Sverrir Kristjánsson
art director: Jindrich Kocí
costumes designer: Manon Rasmussen
music: Jon Ekstrand
producer: Birgitte Skov, Lars Bredo Rahbek
production: SF Studios Production AB, Filmkameratene AS, Truenorth, Sirena Film, TV2 Denmark
backing: Film i Väst, Swedish Film Institute/Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), DFI (Danish Film Institute) + New Danish Screen, NFI - Norwegian Film Institute/Norsk Filminstitutt, Icelandic Film Centre + Icelandic Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Czech Film Center/Ceské filmové centrum + Czech Film Fund/Státního fondu kinematografie, Polish Film Institute/Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Eurimages
distributor: SF Studios Denmark

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