RATINGS
IMDB
7.5
Metacritic
73
A Royal Affair(2012)
Danish King Christian VII (ruled 1766-1808) suffers from mental illness and is pushed around by radical thinker Johann Friedrich Struensee, his personal physician, who made progressive reforms which did not last long
Romance
RUNTIME
137 min
AGE RATING
R
COUNTRY
Denmark
LANGUAGE
Danish
DIRECTOR
Nikolaj Arcel
CAST
Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Plot
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.