This Wednesday, December 25, 2024, until proposes to (re)discover Royal affair a Swedish-Danish-Czech film by Nikolaj Arcel released in theaters in November 2012.
The historical romance is set in Denmark in 1770. The king Christian VII is on the throne but his mental instability makes him incapable of exercising his office and reigning over the country. Worried, the ministers of the kingdom call on the intelligent and attractive doctor Johann Struenseepractitioner imbued with the revolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers.
Mads Mikkelsen au casting de Royal affair
Quickly, a secret intellectual and romantic relationship will form between Caroline-Mathildequeen of the country abandoned by her husband who prefers to frequent brothels, and him. Struensee will even end up rallying the queen to his ideas and pushing the king to guide the kingdom on the path of important social reforms, twenty years before the French revolution. In the casting, we find Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Johann Struensee. By his side, Alicia Vikander plays the character of Queen Caroline-Mathilde, while Mikkel Boe Folsgaard plays that of King Christian VII.
Nominated in the best foreign film category at the Golden Globes and the Oscars in 2013, the feature film ultimately only came away with two Silver Bears at the Berlinale, in this case those for best screenplay and best actor for Mikkel Boe Folsgaard.
A story inspired by true events
Royal affair draws its scenario from the real affair between the former queen of Denmark, Caroline-Mathildeand the doctor and politician Johann Struensee. A true story which had a tragic outcome since the Danish nobility, hostile to the reforms initiated by Struenseeended up having him indicted for conspiracy and having him beheaded on the main square in Copenhagen in 1772.
The queen Caroline-Mathilde will, for her part, be repudiated, before being sent to her former lady-in-waiting, where she will die barely three years later, in 1775. Christian VII will reign until his death in 1808.
A disappointment in the cinema but a success on television
Royal affair nevertheless takes some liberties with historical facts. “Given the popularity of these events in Danish history, we have respected the facts while allowing ourselves some dramatic liberties”specified the director Nikolaj Arcel at the time of the film's release in theaters.
Disappointment in theaters, with only 245,000 admissions, Royal affair had come close to the symbolic mark of one million viewers during its first television broadcast on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, with 979,000 people in front until between 8:55 p.m. and 11:05 p.m., i.e. 4.1% of the public aged four and over. Will the feature film do better for this rebroadcast?
Royal affair with Mads Mikkelsencan be seen (again) this Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 9:05 p.m. on until.
