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A Royal Affair

Year:

2012

Duration:

137 min

Genres:

Drama | History | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Nikolaj Arcel

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 21 wins & 32 nominations

Details

Country: Denmark

Release Date: 2012-03-29

Filming Locations: Hradcany Square, Hradcany, Prague, Czech Republic

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $38,212 (USA) (11 November 2012)

Gross: $1,545,726 (USA) (28 April 2013)

Cast

Actor

Character

Alicia Vikander

A Royal Affair

Mads Mikkelsen

Johann Friedrich Struensee

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Christian VII

Trine Dyrholm

Juliane Marie

David Dencik

Ove Høegh-Guldberg

Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Schack Carl Rantzau

Cyron Melville

Enevold Brandt

Bent Mejding

J. H. E. Bernstoff

Harriet Walter

Augusta - Princess of Wales

Laura Bro

Louise von Plessen

Søren Malling

Hartmann

Jakob Ulrik Lohmann

Juliane's Officer

Søren Spanning

Munter

Frederik Christian Johansen

Arveprinsen

John Martinus

Reventlow

Rosalinde Mynster

Marie

Nikol Kouklová

Stovlet-Catherine

Egob Nielsen

Mounti

Michaela Horká

Bordelmutter

Alzbeta Jenická

Bondekone

Anna Stiborová

Sophie Livernet

William Jøhnk Nielsen

Frederik VI (15 yrs)

Julia Wentzel Olsen

Louise Augusta - 12 yrs

Frank Rubæk

Minister

Klaus Tange

Minister

Petr Janis

Minister

Karin Rørbeck

Juliane's Lady in Waiting

Josefine Højbjerg Bitsch

Juliane's ladies-in-waitng

Zinnini Elkington

Rantzau's Maid

Morten Holst

Lord Chamberlain

Karel Polisenský

Old Doctor

Eva Sitta

English Lady-in-waiting

Ivan G'Vera

German Doctor

Kristian Fjord

The Fidget

Daniel Bambas

Hamlet

Tereza Terberova

Caroline's housemaid

Jan Krafka

Nightwatcher

Peter Varga

Nightwatcher

Ivan Vodochodský

Noble Gentleman

Lukas Kral

Officer

Nora Rajnochova

Prostitute

Jakub Albrecht

Doctor - smallpox

Kenneth M. Christensen

(voice)

Erika Guntherová

Hofdame

Mads Hjulmand

Hamlet Actor (voice)

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Trivia

Denmark's official submission for the Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards.

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Swedish actress Alicia Vikander had to learn Danish.

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As part of her audition process Nikolaj Arcel took Alicia Vikander out drinking to see how well she could understand Danish. Vikander faked that she could understand and speak it well but at the end of the process when Arcel told her she had the role she didn't understand what he was saying until he switched to Swedish.

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Goofs

The Danish colloquialism "rolig nu" ("easy now") features in the dialogue, but this is a modern innovation dating back only to the 1990s or so.

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In 1769, when Queen Caroline Mathilde is taking tea with the Dowager Queen Juliane Marie, they are clearly seen to be drinking from Danish Flora Danica cups. The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory was not established until 1775 and was the service was not put to use by the Danish Royal Family until 1803.

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While all of the characters all speak Danish in the film, the court language in Denmark at the time was actually German. In real life neither Count von Bernstorff nor Johann Struensee spoke any Danish, and it is more than likely that Christian and Caroline also conversed in German rather than the "people's language."

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Quotes

Johann Friedrich Struensee: Your majesty.

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Johann Friedrich Struensee: Do you remember our first night together?

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Faq

Is this movie based on fact

This movie is based on historical events. They were chronicled in the critically-acclaimed 2002 novel, The Royal Physician's Visit, by Swedish author Per Olov Enqvist.

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