A Royal Affair is a gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for the people, but above all it is the story of a passionate and forbidden romance that changed an entire nation.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 17 min.
- Country, year
- Denmark, Sweden, Czechia, Germany, 2012
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Danish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Nikolaj Arcel
- Screenplay
- Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg
- Cinematography
- Rasmus Videbæk
- Music
- Cyrille Aufort, Gabriel Yared
- Cast
- Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander, David Dencik
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- in competition, Silver Bear for Best Actor and Best Screenplay.
Director
Nikolaj Arcel
Director and scriptwriter Nikojal Arcel was born in 1972, in Denmark. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark. His graduation film Woyzeck’s Last Symphony won top awards at Munich and Clermont-Ferrand. His feature films Kings Game and Island of Lost Souls won a number of national awards. Two director‘s films, Kings Game in 2005 and Truth about Men in 2011, screened at Scanorama.
