Win a double pass to MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH.

Inspired by remarkable true events
The gripping new historical drama by leading Danish director Charlotte Sieling (The Bridge, Homeland, The Man), MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH is based on remarkable true events experienced by Queen Margrete the First of Denmark, the 14th century ruler who founded the union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century.

With an all-star ensemble cast led by the magnificent Trine Dyrholm (Festen, Love Is All You Need), the spectacularly-mounted tale of Byzantine royal intrigue, power games, and betrayal is the largest and most expensive production in Danish film history, and was nominated for 13 Danish Academy Awards (including Best Film, Actress, Cinematography, Original Screenplay).

Australian audiences also applauded this compelling story of a woman ahead of her time at this year’s Scandinavian Film Festival, where the film had its Australian premiere as the Opening Night selection.

Set in the year 1402, we meet fifty-year-old Margrete (Dryholm) who has achieved what no man has managed before: she has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden together into a peaceful union. However, the alliance is precarious, with the fledgling Nordic union beset by enemies. To secure the territory’s future, Margrete’s plan is to broker a marriage between Erik and English princess Philippa (daughter of Henry V). What she is not anticipating is a conspiracy within her own ranks, and when a mysterious man (Jakob Oftebro) presents himself at the palace, professing to be Margrete’s long dead biological son (and thus laying claim to the throne) she’s faced with an impossible dilemma, one that threatens everything she’s worked for.

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