--- title: 'The Girl King (2015)' type: 'film' director: 'Mika Kaurismäki' released: '2015-01-01' runtime_minutes: 106 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Germany' - 'Sweden' - 'Finland' - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-girl-king-2015' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254322/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Girl King (2015) 2015 · 106 min · Drama · Germany, Sweden, Finland, Canada ## Synopsis The Girl King is a 2015 biographical drama about Christina, Queen of Sweden. It was directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Michel Marc Bouchard who, after writing the screenplay for the film, wrote his stage play Christine, La Reine-Garçon which enjoyed a successful run in 2012 at Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and then in English at the Stratford Festival in 2014. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mika Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/mika-kaurismaki) - **Producer:** [Mika Kaurismäki](https://cinepixo.com/people/mika-kaurismaki), [Anna Stratton](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-stratton), [Martin Persson](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-persson), [Arnie Gelbart](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnie-gelbart), [Rainer Kölmel](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-kolmel), [Wasiliki Bleser](https://cinepixo.com/people/wasiliki-bleser) - **Screenplay:** [Michel Marc Bouchard](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-marc-bouchard) - **Director of Photography:** [Guy Dufaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-dufaux) - **Editor:** [Hans Funck](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-funck) ## Cast - [Malin Buska](https://cinepixo.com/people/malin-buska) as Christina of Sweden - [Michael Nyqvist](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-nyqvist) - [Sarah Gadon](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-gadon) - [Patrick Bauchau](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-bauchau) as René Descartes - [François Arnaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-arnaud) as Charles X Gustav of Sweden - [Samuli Edelmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuli-edelmann) as Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-girl-king-2015 Film facts: Wikidata (Q21512824); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.