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Director
  
Anthony Harvey

Music director
  
Nino Rota

Duration
  

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama, History

Screenplay
  
Ruth Wolff

Language
  
English

The Abdication movie poster

Release date
  
3 October 1974

Writer
  
Ruth Wolff (play), Ruth Wolff (screenplay)

Cast
  
Liv Ullmann
(Queen Kristina),
Peter Finch
(Cardinal Azzolino),
Cyril Cusack
(Oxenstierna),
Michael Dunn
(The Dwarf),
Kathleen Byron
(Queen Mother)

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The Abdication is a 1974 British historical drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden and James Faulkner. The film's score was composed by Nino Rota.

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The plot of the film has the abdicated Christina, Queen of Sweden arriving in the Vatican and falling in love with a cardinal.

The abdication original theatrical trailer


Cast

  • Peter Finch as Cardinal Azzolino
  • Liv Ullmann as Queen Kristina
  • Cyril Cusack as Axel Oxenstierna
  • Paul Rogers as Altieri
  • Graham Crowden as Cardinal Barberini
  • Michael Dunn as The Dwarf
  • Kathleen Byron as Queen Mother
  • Lewis Fiander as Father Dominic
  • Harold Goldblatt as Pinamonti
  • Tony Steedman as Carranza
  • Noel Trevarthen as Ginetti
  • James Faulkner as Magnus de la Gardie
  • Edward Underdown as Gustaf II Adolf, Christina's father

    • References

    The Abdication Wikipedia
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    The Abdication IMDb The Abdication themoviedb.org