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The Mists of Avalon

Year:

2001

Duration:

183 min | 60 min (3 episodes)

Genres:

Drama | Fantasy

IMDB rate:

Director:

Uli Edel

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 18 nominations

Details

Country: Czech Republic

Release Date: 2001-07-15

Filming Locations: Prague, Czech Republic

Cast

Actor

Character

Samantha Mathis

The Mists of Avalon

Ian Duncan

Hans Matheson

The Mists of Avalon

Anjelica Huston

Vivianne

Julianna Margulies

Morgaine

Joan Allen

Morgause

Caroline Goodall

Igraine

Edward Atterton

Arthur

Michael Vartan

Lancelot

Michael Byrne

Merlin

Mark Lewis Jones

Uther

Clive Russell

Gorlois

Tamsin Egerton

Young Morgaine

Christopher Fulford

Lot

David Calder

Uriens

Hugh Ross

Bishop Patricius

Edward Jewesbury

Ambrosius

Freddie Highmore

Young Arthur

Noah Huntley

Gawain

Honza Klima

Kay

John Comer

Talbot

Karel Dobrý

Rhiannon

Klára Issová

Raven (as Klara Issova)

Biddy Hodson

Elaine

Tony Curran

Uther's Captain

Philip Lenkowsky

Cuthbert

Lucy Fillery

Serving Woman (as Lucy Fillary)

Elias Zerael Bauer

Young Mordred

Justin Muller

Gareth

Gabriela Zajickova

Child

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Trivia

Last film role for Edward Jewesbury.

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Anjelica Huston was able to keep several of the dresses used in the film and several women wore them during the Baptism of Anjelica's nephew Rafa (the son of her sister Allegra).

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Tamsin Egerton would later go on to play Guinevere in the short lived TV series "Camelot", which is also based on the Legend on the King Arthur.

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Goofs

Elaine tells Gwhenhwyfar she is the "happiest girl in England". The film is set in the sixth century, but the country was not known as England until around the dawn of the 11th century. Elaine would have referred to the land as Britain or the Roman form, Brittania.

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During the stag hunt a mesh wire fence is visible behind the stag.

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In the scene where Gwenhwyfar and Lancelot kiss in the chapel, the cross on the altar is draped with a rosary. The film is set in the fifth century, but the rosary did not exist until the early 13th century.

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Quotes

Lancelot: The King himself asked me into his bed, with the Queen.

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Gwenhwyfar: You say you are a good man, but you condemn your wife to barrenness for the sake of an oath to painted savages. I despise you, Arthur Pendragon! Neither good Christian, nor good pagan, nor a good husband to me.

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Igraine: My daughter! My daughter! Where have you been, my child?

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