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- BFI identifier56362
- Date1974 (Copyright)
1974-10-03 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisIn 1655, Queen Christina arrives in rome after renouncing her Protestant kingdom to embrace the Catholic Church. Cardinal Azzolino, a favourite as successor to the dying Pope, is assigned to examine her. They fall in love and contemplate fleeing, but the Pope's death sees Azzolino re-embracing the Church and rejecting Christina. (Synopsis)
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- Credits
- CastPeter Finch (Cardinal Azzolino)
Liv Ullmann (Queen Christina)
Cyril Cusack (Oxenstierna)
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Title
The Abdication (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/A9BB-B0EC-1F59-4782-FC3A-GCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Screenplay, with revisions dated 11 July 1973. - SCR-2949
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-56362
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Work - 56362 - 1974 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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