A Royal Affair

2012 [DANISH]

Action / Biography / Drama / History / Romance

21
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 82% · 110 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 53633 53.6K

infidelity secret love love triangle politics queen coup d'etat

Plot summary

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

Director

Nikolaj Arcel Photo
Nikolaj Arcel

Top cast

Mads Mikkelsen Photo
Mads Mikkelsen as Johann Friedrich Struensee
Alicia Vikander Photo
Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilde
David Dencik Photo
David Dencik as Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Laura Bro Photo
Laura Bro as Louise von Plessen
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.24 GB
1280*544
Danish 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 17 min
Seeds 3
2.54 GB
1920*816
Danish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 17 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by RichardvonLust 9 / 10

Best supporting Actor 2012 - by a landslide.

I had the great fortune to be invited to attend the World Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this evening of this wonderful film -and opportunities like that don't come often. A Royal Affair is Oscar level material in many respects. The screenplay, directing and photography are all superb but the performance of Mikkel Følsgaard as Christian VII of Denmark was perfection. It is so difficult to act a madman acting as if he were sane and I cannot believe any actor taking an Oscar this year could have put up a better performance. Mikkel got the loudest cheer from the audience and he thoroughly deserved it. The plot revolves around the machinations of power behind the throne of a simpleton monarch. Christian may be King but he simply wants to play like a child. He is married and fathers a son quite brutally but he loves his dog more than his family. And so a German Doctor is called to treat him. Christian befriends his physician and leaves more and more power in the hands of this foreign commoner. And then the Doctor falls in love with the Queen.... It's all true and I won't tell more than that. Just go and see it as soon as you can. It puts Hollywood and Bollywood both straight into the dust bin. Classic drama, brilliant script and a piece of thespian-ism that puts Olivier to task. Just brilliant.
Reviewed by fedilio 9 / 10

What can i say....i was blown away by this this movie

I saw this last night and its been on my mind a lot since then..What a fantastic movie!!, i went in with high expectations, as i had only read very positive things about it, and I was definitely not disappointed, what a beautiful, sad and touching story Great acting overall, mads Mikkelsen is always good, and this is one of his best roles in my opinion, Alicia wikander was beautiful as the young queen, but the real star of this movie has to be Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Christian VII, Wow!!, what a great actor, his portrayal of the mentally ill king was superb, he really made me sympathize with Christian, he may have been of his nutter and mean at times, but deep down, I think he was a good guy, but he was a very insecure young man, who didn't know how to behave properly, and who couldn't deal with the obligation of being king, he was misunderstood, and I felt really bad for him at times, I really like the portrayal of the relationship between the King and struensee, they were really very good friends/companions, and struensee was like a father to Christian.The costumes were also beautiful, I love fashion in that period, and this movie had some beautiful clothes to dwell on.It was about time my country did a movie on our royal history, and now they have, and the outcome is better then i could have ever expected, just beautiful, Hollywood couldn't have done it better, as a Dane I take pride in our danish (royal)history.Go and see it!!, you wont be sorry
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