The Abdication (Original title)
Dates: 1974 (Copyright), 03 October 1974 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Anthony Harvey
Synopsis: In 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.
Genre: Historical drama
Releases
Date: 03 October 1974Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 06 December 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9012 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1974 (Copyright), 03 October 1974 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Anthony Harvey
Synopsis: In 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.
Genre: Historical drama
Releases
Date: 03 October 1974Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 06 December 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9012 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(47)
©: Warner Bros. Inc., {Production Company}: Warner Bros., Produced by: Robert Fryer, James Cresson, Associate Producer: William Hill, Italian Production Manager: Mario Pisani, Italian Production Supervisor: Danilo Sabatini, Production Accountant: Arthur Tarry, Location Manager: Al Burgess, Swedish Locations Arranged by: Christer Abrahamsen, Producer's Secretary: Ann Ford, Italian Production Assistant: Laura Fattori, Production Assistant: Barbara Allen, Assistant Director: David Munro, Continuity: Connie Willis, Casting: Maude Spector, Screenplay by: Ruth Wolff, Based on her play: Ruth Wolff, Photographed by: Geoffrey Unsworth, Camera Operator: Peter MacDonald, Assistant Camera: Cedric James, Editor: John Bloom, Assistant Editor: Lesley Walker, Production Designer: Terry Marsh, Art Director: Alan Tomkins, Set Decorator: Peter James, Set Dresser: Peter James, Property Master: George Ball, Construction Manager: Peter Dukelow, Michael Redding, Costume Designed by: Peter J. Hall, Wardrobe Supervisor: Betty Adamson, Wardrobe Master: Austin Cooper, Miss [Liv] Ullmann's Hair and Make-up: Cecilia Drott, Make-up: George Frost, Hairdressing: Colin Jamison, Colour by: Technicolor, Music Composed by: Nino Rota, {Music Performed by}: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by: Marcus Dods, Sound: Simon Kaye, Gordon K. McCallum, Sound Editor: Chris Greenham, Unit Publicist: Geoffrey Freeman, Photographic Equipment by: Panavision, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Peter Finch (Cardinal Azzolino), Liv Ullmann (Queen Christina), Cyril Cusack (Oxenstierna), Paul Rogers (Altieri), Graham Crowden (Barberini), Michael Dunn (dwarf), Kathleen Byron (Queen Mother), Lewis Fiander (Dominic), Harold Goldblatt (Pinamonti), Tony Steedman (Carranza), Noel Trevarthen (Ginetti), Richard Cornish (Charles), James Faulkner (Magnus), Ania Marson (Ebba), Franz Drago (Birgito), Suzanne Huddart (young Christina), Debbie Nicholson (young Ebba), Edward Underdown (Christina's father)