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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,006 Who are you? 2 00:01:26,810 --> 00:01:30,008 I was King of Sweden. 3 00:01:37,154 --> 00:01:40,147 The Lord, in his infinite wisdom... 4 00:01:41,225 --> 00:01:44,593 has seen fit to deprive us of our noble king... 5 00:01:45,062 --> 00:01:46,690 Gustavus Adolphus... 6 00:01:46,897 --> 00:01:49,924 while Sweden is in the midst of a grievous war. 7 00:01:50,501 --> 00:01:53,801 For 14 years our arms have served in the field... 8 00:01:54,071 --> 00:01:55,505 against our enemies. 9 00:01:55,706 --> 00:01:58,369 And in this dark hour, we still fight on... 10 00:01:58,542 --> 00:02:01,102 for the Protestant cause of our country. 11 00:02:01,245 --> 00:02:02,941 Our King is dead... 12 00:02:03,414 --> 00:02:06,316 but his spirit still lives in us... 13 00:02:06,550 --> 00:02:08,485 and in his child, Christina. 14 00:02:08,952 --> 00:02:11,854 Her father, our King... 15 00:02:12,122 --> 00:02:14,682 brought up this child as a boy... 16 00:02:15,092 --> 00:02:18,494 accustomed her ears to the sound of cannon fire... 17 00:02:18,896 --> 00:02:22,492 and sought to mold her spirit after his own. 18 00:02:23,033 --> 00:02:24,399 Let's see the child. 19 00:03:07,344 --> 00:03:08,573 Your Majesty... 20 00:03:08,679 --> 00:03:12,775 I swore to the King, your father, to place this crown upon your head. 21 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:15,178 And now I swear by my life... 22 00:03:15,352 --> 00:03:17,844 to serve you as I served him. 23 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,668 Men do not cry. 24 00:03:36,073 --> 00:03:38,099 Shall I make my speech now? 25 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:49,181 Good Lords, and Swedish men... 26 00:03:49,353 --> 00:03:51,686 Queen Christina, by the grace of God... 27 00:03:51,788 --> 00:03:54,849 Queen of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Vandals, promise you... 28 00:03:54,992 --> 00:03:57,018 to be a good and just king... 29 00:03:57,394 --> 00:03:58,862 to protect you all... 30 00:03:59,062 --> 00:04:01,793 and to guard the kingdom as our father did... 31 00:04:01,899 --> 00:04:04,892 to rule wisely, and with God's help... 32 00:04:05,335 --> 00:04:08,794 to keep the standard as we received it from our fathers. 33 00:04:11,008 --> 00:04:13,944 Concerning this war, which we are bitterly waging... 34 00:04:14,044 --> 00:04:15,478 we promise.... 35 00:04:19,116 --> 00:04:20,744 To wage it with courage. 36 00:04:24,187 --> 00:04:25,951 We promise to win it! 37 00:04:26,757 --> 00:04:28,282 I bless you all. 38 00:04:29,293 --> 00:04:32,127 The King is dead, long live the King. 39 00:04:32,229 --> 00:04:33,697 Long live the King! 40 00:05:31,054 --> 00:05:32,488 Your Majesty. 41 00:05:33,156 --> 00:05:36,422 The arrival of Prince Charles forced me to summon Your Majesty. 42 00:05:36,526 --> 00:05:40,054 The Parliament is in session, waiting to act on his victories. 43 00:05:40,197 --> 00:05:44,396 After 30 years of war, Sweden now has the commanding place in Europe. 44 00:05:44,534 --> 00:05:46,969 Now is the time for new, definite actions. 45 00:05:47,471 --> 00:05:49,838 These I want to discuss with you. 46 00:05:50,007 --> 00:05:52,567 There will be enough discussion in the Parliament. 47 00:05:52,709 --> 00:05:54,974 You have reports for me to sign, my Lord Treasurer? 48 00:05:55,078 --> 00:05:57,343 I have them here, Your Majesty. 49 00:05:58,715 --> 00:06:01,810 Prince Charles' victory was crushing, was it not, Chancellor? 50 00:06:01,952 --> 00:06:03,386 Complete, Your Majesty. 51 00:06:03,487 --> 00:06:04,750 Now would be a happy moment... 52 00:06:04,855 --> 00:06:07,017 to announce your betrothal to Prince Charles. 53 00:06:07,157 --> 00:06:09,217 He returns a national hero. 54 00:06:09,559 --> 00:06:12,586 I look forward to Prince Charles' reception in the Parliament. 55 00:06:12,729 --> 00:06:14,254 He will love it. 56 00:06:15,432 --> 00:06:18,493 I have heard of the enemy's losses. 57 00:06:18,935 --> 00:06:20,403 What were ours? 58 00:06:21,004 --> 00:06:24,065 10,000 men, 4,000 horses, 200 cannon. 59 00:06:24,775 --> 00:06:26,744 A few more victories like this... 60 00:06:26,877 --> 00:06:29,472 and we will have to hire foreigners to fight our battles. 61 00:06:29,613 --> 00:06:31,741 In the end, the enemy will pay for it. 62 00:06:31,882 --> 00:06:35,751 In the meantime, it would be a good moment to vote fresh monies for the war. 63 00:06:35,852 --> 00:06:38,549 The Lord Treasurer will tell Your Majesty we need it. 64 00:06:38,689 --> 00:06:41,818 He doesn't have to tell me. These reports tell me. 65 00:06:42,292 --> 00:06:43,726 This war is expensive. 66 00:06:43,827 --> 00:06:46,092 The Parliament clamors for more war. 67 00:06:46,196 --> 00:06:49,064 They clamor for a Swedish marriage for Your Majesty. 68 00:06:49,299 --> 00:06:52,064 They clamor for an heir of Swedish blood. 69 00:06:52,536 --> 00:06:55,062 In short, Chancellor, they clamor. 70 00:06:56,006 --> 00:06:58,942 Here are your reports. This one I keep. 71 00:06:59,109 --> 00:07:02,511 Thank you, My Lords. I shall see you in the Parliament. 72 00:07:09,486 --> 00:07:10,647 Your Majesty. 73 00:07:11,021 --> 00:07:12,956 Yes, Count Magnus. 74 00:07:20,664 --> 00:07:22,496 It's so long since I have seen you. 75 00:07:22,599 --> 00:07:25,865 - I saw you yesterday. - To me that's long since. 76 00:07:26,136 --> 00:07:28,196 I am not an idle woman, Magnus. 77 00:07:28,472 --> 00:07:30,407 I have a war on my hands. 78 00:07:31,942 --> 00:07:34,104 Are you going to marry the national hero? 79 00:07:34,244 --> 00:07:37,146 You are petulant, Magnus, and I have no time to soothe you. 80 00:07:37,247 --> 00:07:39,216 The Parliament is waiting. 81 00:07:46,223 --> 00:07:48,658 We are eager to greet our victorious cousin... 82 00:07:48,792 --> 00:07:51,159 Prince Palatine Charles Gustavus. 83 00:08:22,125 --> 00:08:23,787 Welcome, my cousin. 84 00:08:24,227 --> 00:08:27,629 For the great victory you have won, Sweden is grateful. 85 00:08:27,931 --> 00:08:29,627 We will not forget. 86 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,168 For the fatherland, Your Majesty, and loyalty to you... 87 00:08:33,270 --> 00:08:36,001 and for glory, no sacrifice is too great! 88 00:08:36,206 --> 00:08:40,576 Our enemy is in retreat and our standards fly over the fields of their dead. 89 00:08:46,750 --> 00:08:50,152 Now, Your Majesty, would be a good time to send fresh armies... 90 00:08:50,253 --> 00:08:51,812 and crush these barbarians. 91 00:08:51,955 --> 00:08:55,084 We want to continue what we began in your father's reign... 92 00:08:55,225 --> 00:08:57,694 until every enemy soldier is disarmed! 93 00:08:57,828 --> 00:09:00,821 This is not an ordinary war for treasure or conquest. 94 00:09:01,064 --> 00:09:03,533 It is for our faith and for our God. 95 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:07,660 God is being invoked in many lands these days, Your Grace. 96 00:09:08,138 --> 00:09:09,606 What about the enemy's God? 97 00:09:09,739 --> 00:09:13,471 When the enemy invokes God, that is blasphemy, Your Majesty. 98 00:09:13,610 --> 00:09:16,205 I wish I had your confidence, Archbishop. 99 00:09:16,346 --> 00:09:20,181 We of the nobility are willing to back our noble commander Prince Charles... 100 00:09:20,283 --> 00:09:21,808 to the last man! 101 00:09:22,652 --> 00:09:24,553 I thank the noble Lord. 102 00:09:24,788 --> 00:09:28,122 For your glory, Your Majesty, I return to the wars with fresh courage. 103 00:09:35,866 --> 00:09:37,562 You have all spoken: 104 00:09:38,268 --> 00:09:39,793 you, my Nobles... 105 00:09:40,136 --> 00:09:42,071 you, my gallant General... 106 00:09:42,739 --> 00:09:44,435 you, my Archbishop... 107 00:09:44,708 --> 00:09:46,574 and you, my hero cousin. 108 00:09:47,711 --> 00:09:49,839 I have heard all your voices. 109 00:09:51,181 --> 00:09:52,843 But what of the peasants? 110 00:09:53,049 --> 00:09:55,518 You peasants have fought this war. 111 00:09:55,952 --> 00:09:57,682 What have you to say? 112 00:10:00,924 --> 00:10:02,756 Will you not speak, father? 113 00:10:06,730 --> 00:10:09,495 What is there for us to say, Your Majesty? 114 00:10:10,166 --> 00:10:15,002 Unbeknownst to us, the war is started and we are sent, and we go. 115 00:10:15,605 --> 00:10:17,631 You shall go no longer! 116 00:10:18,708 --> 00:10:21,610 There are other things to live for than wars! 117 00:10:22,145 --> 00:10:23,704 I have had enough of them. 118 00:10:23,847 --> 00:10:27,284 We have been fighting since I was in the cradle and many years before. 119 00:10:27,417 --> 00:10:28,715 It is enough. 120 00:10:29,352 --> 00:10:32,618 I shall ask the powers to meet for a speedy and honorable peace. 121 00:10:32,756 --> 00:10:34,486 There must be an end! 122 00:10:38,361 --> 00:10:41,092 What? Peace now? After such a victory? 123 00:10:42,565 --> 00:10:44,693 We have these heretics by the throat. 124 00:10:44,834 --> 00:10:46,393 Let us have them on their knees. 125 00:10:46,536 --> 00:10:49,631 Will you slaughter all of contrary faith, Archbishop? 126 00:10:49,773 --> 00:10:51,002 You are too ambitious. 127 00:10:51,141 --> 00:10:54,703 But, Your Majesty, if the enemy refuses to accept our terms? 128 00:10:54,978 --> 00:10:56,742 Offer them terms they will accept. 129 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,509 Your father, the King, must be avenged! 130 00:10:59,749 --> 00:11:02,548 Not avenged, My Lord, justified! 131 00:11:02,652 --> 00:11:04,245 He must be justified! 132 00:11:04,387 --> 00:11:06,481 We must have compensation for our soldiers. 133 00:11:06,623 --> 00:11:08,114 20 million thalers! 134 00:11:08,258 --> 00:11:09,191 30 million! 135 00:11:09,326 --> 00:11:10,885 I will take their last thaler! 136 00:11:11,027 --> 00:11:13,462 The world rings with the fame of our armies! 137 00:11:13,563 --> 00:11:17,364 And we shall win still greater glories for Sweden. 138 00:11:31,214 --> 00:11:33,342 Spoils! Glory! 139 00:11:33,850 --> 00:11:35,512 Flags and trumpets! 140 00:11:35,819 --> 00:11:39,017 What is behind these high-sounding words? 141 00:11:39,255 --> 00:11:41,121 Death and destruction! 142 00:11:41,291 --> 00:11:43,283 Triumphals of crippled men! 143 00:11:43,927 --> 00:11:46,522 Sweden victorious in a ravaged Europe. 144 00:11:46,896 --> 00:11:49,127 An island in a dead sea! 145 00:11:50,333 --> 00:11:54,031 I tell you, I want no more of it. 146 00:11:54,771 --> 00:11:57,969 I want for my people security and happiness. 147 00:11:58,641 --> 00:12:01,201 I want to cultivate the arts of peace. 148 00:12:01,678 --> 00:12:03,237 The arts of life! 149 00:12:04,414 --> 00:12:09,114 I want peace, and peace I will have. 150 00:12:53,163 --> 00:12:54,324 Your Majesty. 151 00:12:54,764 --> 00:12:57,427 Every morning I come to wake you... 152 00:12:57,567 --> 00:13:02,130 and every morning I find you already awake and reading. 153 00:13:05,909 --> 00:13:09,641 It's not right, Your Majesty, to rob your sleep. 154 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,347 I have so little free time, Aage, that to spend it sleeping seems a waste. 155 00:14:15,512 --> 00:14:17,777 What a clever fellow is this, Aage. 156 00:14:17,947 --> 00:14:19,745 - Who? - Molière. 157 00:14:20,950 --> 00:14:23,419 - What is he? - He writes plays. 158 00:14:24,187 --> 00:14:26,486 He makes fun here of pretentious ladies. 159 00:14:28,358 --> 00:14:30,918 "As for me, Uncle, all I can say is that I think... 160 00:14:31,060 --> 00:14:33,859 "marriage an altogether shocking thing. 161 00:14:34,063 --> 00:14:37,329 "How is it possible to endure the idea of sleeping... 162 00:14:37,534 --> 00:14:39,366 "with a man in the room?" 163 00:14:39,536 --> 00:14:41,562 Is that good, Your Majesty? 164 00:14:43,273 --> 00:14:45,970 Not bad, Aage. 165 00:14:46,442 --> 00:14:47,740 They say... 166 00:14:47,877 --> 00:14:51,439 you are going to marry Prince Charles. 167 00:14:52,315 --> 00:14:54,682 Do they? What do you think of it? 168 00:14:56,186 --> 00:15:00,419 I think it's good for a queen to marry a hero. 169 00:15:03,326 --> 00:15:05,158 What else do they say? 170 00:15:06,262 --> 00:15:07,560 They say... 171 00:15:07,997 --> 00:15:11,297 you prefer the Lord Treasurer. 172 00:15:12,202 --> 00:15:14,330 And what do you think of him? 173 00:15:15,138 --> 00:15:17,403 I don't like him, Your Majesty. 174 00:15:17,807 --> 00:15:19,742 - Why not? - The right foot. 175 00:15:20,977 --> 00:15:22,775 He's too clever. 176 00:15:25,315 --> 00:15:28,114 Everybody can't be simple and heroic, Aage. 177 00:15:28,418 --> 00:15:29,545 Well... 178 00:15:31,421 --> 00:15:32,980 I don't like him! 179 00:15:37,527 --> 00:15:39,223 Ebba, come in. 180 00:15:39,696 --> 00:15:42,894 Now don't dally, Your Majesty. You have a busy day. 181 00:15:43,766 --> 00:15:45,200 Morning, Ebba. 182 00:15:45,635 --> 00:15:48,867 - What are you doing up so early? - I couldn't sleep. 183 00:15:48,972 --> 00:15:51,305 That means you are happy or unhappy. Which is it? 184 00:15:51,441 --> 00:15:53,034 - Happy. - I am glad. 185 00:15:53,276 --> 00:15:55,939 - And what makes you so happy? - No reason. 186 00:15:56,045 --> 00:15:58,742 How wonderful to be happy for no reason. 187 00:15:58,881 --> 00:16:00,577 Let's go for a sleigh ride. 188 00:16:00,683 --> 00:16:02,845 - I can't now. - Why not? 189 00:16:03,753 --> 00:16:07,713 - Ambassadors, treaties, councils. - How boring. 190 00:16:08,091 --> 00:16:11,084 - But we'll go afterward, Ebba. - You always say that. 191 00:16:11,194 --> 00:16:14,164 But at the end of the day, you are never free to go anywhere. 192 00:16:14,264 --> 00:16:17,029 You are surrounded by musty old papers and musty old men... 193 00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:18,431 and I can't get near you. 194 00:16:18,534 --> 00:16:21,129 Today, I will dispose of them by sundown, I promise you. 195 00:16:21,271 --> 00:16:24,173 And we will go away, two or three days in the country. 196 00:16:24,274 --> 00:16:26,004 - Wouldn't you like that? - I'd love it. 197 00:16:26,109 --> 00:16:30,809 The French Ambassador, Monsieur Chanut, is waiting in the council chamber. 198 00:16:31,047 --> 00:16:32,515 There, they begin. 199 00:16:32,615 --> 00:16:35,084 Countess, you're dismissed. Run along. 200 00:16:39,322 --> 00:16:42,053 I have good news for you, Monsieur Chanut. 201 00:16:42,625 --> 00:16:45,754 Your countryman, the philosopher Descartes, is coming here. 202 00:16:45,862 --> 00:16:50,266 What happier destiny for a Frenchman than to come to you, Madame. 203 00:16:51,501 --> 00:16:54,437 You are the only Ambassador, Monsieur Chanut... 204 00:16:54,537 --> 00:16:57,268 who doesn't treat me like an institution. 205 00:16:57,407 --> 00:17:00,206 I must confess, it's very agreeable. 206 00:17:00,310 --> 00:17:02,541 That is charming of you, Madame. 207 00:17:02,645 --> 00:17:06,639 But the arrival of the Spanish Ambassador makes it especially urgent... 208 00:17:06,749 --> 00:17:09,480 that you sign the treaty with France now. 209 00:17:09,619 --> 00:17:11,781 Do not fear, Monsieur Chanut. 210 00:17:12,288 --> 00:17:16,589 The Spaniard's arrival cannot disturb the natural harmony... 211 00:17:16,693 --> 00:17:18,355 between Sweden and France. 212 00:17:18,461 --> 00:17:23,331 But the strained relations, Madame, between my government and Spain-- 213 00:17:23,533 --> 00:17:26,367 They can never affect ours, Monsieur Chanut. 214 00:17:28,671 --> 00:17:31,505 Madame,you are my despair. 215 00:17:31,908 --> 00:17:33,001 Why? 216 00:17:33,109 --> 00:17:36,079 Because you rebuff me always with such charm... 217 00:17:36,179 --> 00:17:41,083 that at the end of all our interviews I find myself always in a veritable glow... 218 00:17:41,784 --> 00:17:43,650 of disappointment. 219 00:17:43,953 --> 00:17:47,185 And I, of anticipation. 220 00:17:47,657 --> 00:17:52,459 Your Majesty, our university at Uppsala is the oldest in Sweden... 221 00:17:52,895 --> 00:17:55,194 one of the oldest in Europe. 222 00:17:55,498 --> 00:18:00,402 To admit professors from Spain and Italy might corrupt the purity of our teaching. 223 00:18:00,937 --> 00:18:04,840 The danger is not so much of corruption as of staleness. 224 00:18:04,974 --> 00:18:07,068 We need new wine in the old bottles. 225 00:18:07,176 --> 00:18:10,704 Here is the new draft of the treaty with Cromwell, Your Majesty. 226 00:18:10,847 --> 00:18:14,215 There are several important changes in it, so if you read it, please... 227 00:18:14,317 --> 00:18:15,683 that I may know your opinion. 228 00:18:15,785 --> 00:18:17,754 I will do so, Chancellor. 229 00:18:20,423 --> 00:18:25,259 Your Majesty, I must again speak to you about your marriage with Prince Charles. 230 00:18:25,928 --> 00:18:28,796 This eternal talk about Charles. 231 00:18:28,931 --> 00:18:30,763 I cannot tell you how it wearies me. 232 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,233 I do not see eye to eye with Charles about anything. 233 00:18:33,336 --> 00:18:36,204 - He is a hero. - There are varieties of heroes. 234 00:18:36,506 --> 00:18:39,408 He is a hero at fighting, and fighting bores me. 235 00:18:39,609 --> 00:18:43,705 - His only gift is with the sword. - The sword has made Sweden great. 236 00:18:44,781 --> 00:18:48,274 Yes, but do we not exalt that gift too much, Chancellor? 237 00:18:49,786 --> 00:18:52,620 You cannot remake the world, Your Majesty. 238 00:18:52,722 --> 00:18:53,917 Why not? 239 00:18:54,190 --> 00:18:58,525 Look, Chancellor, the philosophers remake it, the artists remake it... 240 00:18:58,628 --> 00:19:02,759 the scientists remake it. Why not we who wield the power? 241 00:19:03,399 --> 00:19:07,268 The people follow blindly the generals who lead them to destruction. 242 00:19:07,370 --> 00:19:11,273 Will they not follow us who lead them beyond themselves... 243 00:19:11,707 --> 00:19:15,405 where there is grace and beauty, gaiety and freedom? 244 00:19:15,511 --> 00:19:19,744 Europe is an armed camp, Your Majesty, not Utopia peopled with shepherds. 245 00:19:19,982 --> 00:19:21,610 But Chancellor.... 246 00:19:34,030 --> 00:19:37,523 Snow again. Eternal snow. 247 00:19:37,633 --> 00:19:42,071 Your Majesty, it is for Sweden. It is your duty. 248 00:19:42,171 --> 00:19:43,799 Why is it my duty? 249 00:19:43,906 --> 00:19:46,967 My days and nights are given up to the service of the state. 250 00:19:47,076 --> 00:19:49,841 I am so cramped with duty that to be able to read a book... 251 00:19:49,946 --> 00:19:52,245 I have to rise in the middle of the night. 252 00:19:52,348 --> 00:19:55,443 I serve the people with all my thoughts, with all my energy... 253 00:19:55,551 --> 00:19:58,248 with all my dreams, waking and sleeping. 254 00:19:59,222 --> 00:20:02,283 I do not wish to marry, and they cannot force me. 255 00:20:02,425 --> 00:20:04,587 You must give Sweden an heir. 256 00:20:05,795 --> 00:20:07,764 Not by Charles, Chancellor. 257 00:20:07,864 --> 00:20:11,631 You are Sweden's Queen. You are your father's daughter. 258 00:20:16,706 --> 00:20:19,403 Must we live for the dead? 259 00:20:20,009 --> 00:20:21,705 For the great dead? 260 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:24,907 Yes, Your Majesty. 261 00:20:32,288 --> 00:20:34,917 Snow is like a wide sea. 262 00:20:36,626 --> 00:20:39,528 One could go out and be lost in it... 263 00:20:40,596 --> 00:20:44,658 and forget the world and oneself. 264 00:20:46,135 --> 00:20:50,163 There are rumors that Your Majesty is planning a foreign marriage. 265 00:20:51,574 --> 00:20:53,202 They are baseless. 266 00:20:53,609 --> 00:20:57,774 But, Your Majesty, you cannot die an old maid. 267 00:20:59,615 --> 00:21:02,084 I have no intention to, Chancellor. 268 00:21:02,285 --> 00:21:04,948 I shall die a bachelor. 269 00:21:10,526 --> 00:21:13,223 Of course, Magnus, you heard everything. 270 00:21:14,564 --> 00:21:17,056 No wonder you are so well-informed. 271 00:21:17,166 --> 00:21:20,193 I am rather disappointed you are not going to marry Charles. 272 00:21:20,303 --> 00:21:22,272 I'd much rather him than another. 273 00:21:22,438 --> 00:21:25,374 Charles spends all his time reviewing troops. 274 00:21:25,474 --> 00:21:28,239 It doesn't become you to make fun of Charles. 275 00:21:28,344 --> 00:21:31,007 He has risked his life for his country. 276 00:21:31,247 --> 00:21:33,546 He, at least, is no opportunist. 277 00:21:33,783 --> 00:21:35,081 You're serious today. 278 00:21:35,184 --> 00:21:38,643 - It isn't that, Magnus. - No? What then? 279 00:21:39,956 --> 00:21:42,755 I look at you and I look at a stranger. 280 00:21:43,659 --> 00:21:46,458 A stranger whom I do not altogether like. 281 00:21:46,662 --> 00:21:49,427 I grant you your preferences, if you will love me. 282 00:21:50,333 --> 00:21:51,733 Love you? 283 00:21:52,134 --> 00:21:55,195 I wonder now, Magnus, if I have ever loved you. 284 00:21:55,404 --> 00:21:57,737 I am your destiny, Christina. 285 00:21:58,174 --> 00:21:59,142 Are you? 286 00:22:00,876 --> 00:22:05,780 - I long to escape my destiny. - You will long to return to it. 287 00:22:13,089 --> 00:22:16,526 - Where is Countess Ebba? - In her chamber, Your Majesty. 288 00:22:18,561 --> 00:22:22,157 The Queen is selfish. It is simple for her. She orders and you obey. 289 00:22:22,264 --> 00:22:23,892 How long are you going on this way? 290 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,969 Every time we meet, you promise to tell her... 291 00:22:26,068 --> 00:22:28,503 you love me and you want to marry me and you never do. 292 00:22:28,604 --> 00:22:32,439 The Queen is so dominating. She's interested only in her own concerns. 293 00:22:32,541 --> 00:22:33,975 She never asks me. 294 00:22:34,310 --> 00:22:35,744 Your Majesty. 295 00:22:42,084 --> 00:22:43,313 Leave us. 296 00:22:43,853 --> 00:22:47,346 - Forgive me. Forgive him. - It is you I cannot forgive, Ebba. 297 00:22:47,523 --> 00:22:49,788 You needn't fear my domination any longer. 298 00:22:49,892 --> 00:22:51,520 Your Majesty, please. 299 00:22:51,661 --> 00:22:54,961 You pretended to be interested in me and my problems. 300 00:22:55,064 --> 00:22:57,932 Your sympathy, your concern... 301 00:22:58,034 --> 00:23:01,903 all pretense, underneath which you resent me. 302 00:23:02,004 --> 00:23:04,473 You do not understand, Your Majesty. 303 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,200 The difficulty is, Ebba, that I do. 304 00:23:11,547 --> 00:23:12,981 Your Majesty. 305 00:23:13,382 --> 00:23:14,645 What now? 306 00:23:14,784 --> 00:23:18,221 I must warn you about the impending visit of the Spanish envoy. 307 00:23:18,421 --> 00:23:21,721 Sweden is the great Protestant stronghold of Europe. 308 00:23:21,824 --> 00:23:26,762 Therefore, with this Spaniard, you must be polite but reserved. 309 00:23:27,063 --> 00:23:28,326 Very well. 310 00:23:29,598 --> 00:23:30,588 What is this? 311 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:33,534 The people know that Prince Charles is visiting you here. 312 00:23:33,636 --> 00:23:34,934 They are excited about it. 313 00:23:35,037 --> 00:23:36,630 They want to see their Queen. 314 00:23:36,739 --> 00:23:39,436 Must I smile for the masses, Chancellor? 315 00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:42,508 That is not too much to do for the people. 316 00:23:54,356 --> 00:23:57,019 We want Prince Charles as our King! 317 00:23:57,827 --> 00:23:59,591 Christina, our Queen! 318 00:23:59,762 --> 00:24:02,129 Long live Charles Gustavus! 319 00:24:02,832 --> 00:24:04,391 Long live Prince Charles! 320 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:08,767 - Sweden for the Swedes! - Prince Charles for our King! 321 00:24:10,473 --> 00:24:14,604 This is what comes, Chancellor, from feeding the people a false hope. 322 00:24:27,456 --> 00:24:28,856 - Aage. - Your Majesty? 323 00:24:28,958 --> 00:24:31,450 My riding coat. We go out in the snow. 324 00:24:31,594 --> 00:24:35,258 - To hunt, Your Majesty? - At least not be hunted. 325 00:25:26,382 --> 00:25:27,748 Foreigners. 326 00:25:28,284 --> 00:25:29,616 Spaniards. 327 00:25:50,472 --> 00:25:52,703 You find this amusing, do you? 328 00:25:53,209 --> 00:25:54,905 Where is that fool of a coachman? 329 00:25:55,010 --> 00:25:57,878 It's not his fault. The ditch is full of soft snow. 330 00:25:58,047 --> 00:26:00,846 - It often happens like that here. - What a country. 331 00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:11,383 Aage, get the robe, put it under the wheel. 332 00:26:11,493 --> 00:26:14,952 Tell the coachman to take off his robe and put it under the other wheel. 333 00:26:19,835 --> 00:26:22,168 Now, all together, with a big heave. 334 00:26:23,272 --> 00:26:24,797 Aage, hold the horses. 335 00:26:27,076 --> 00:26:29,102 Now all together, push! 336 00:26:33,449 --> 00:26:35,247 That's splendid. 337 00:26:41,957 --> 00:26:43,823 How far is it to the nearest inn? 338 00:26:43,926 --> 00:26:46,555 Two leagues. You can be there by nightfall. 339 00:26:46,662 --> 00:26:49,564 That is, unless you fall into another ditch. 340 00:26:51,033 --> 00:26:52,899 Give the boy a thaler, Pedro. 341 00:27:58,734 --> 00:28:00,600 Where is the landlord? 342 00:28:00,836 --> 00:28:03,305 - There he is. - Coming. 343 00:28:03,405 --> 00:28:05,237 What can I do for you, young man? 344 00:28:05,341 --> 00:28:07,003 Supper, room and bed. 345 00:28:07,109 --> 00:28:09,601 I have only one room vacant. That's the best one. 346 00:28:09,712 --> 00:28:13,149 That's for people of quality, costs three thaler. 347 00:28:13,382 --> 00:28:15,283 Give him 10, Aage. 348 00:28:18,921 --> 00:28:22,653 Thank you, My Lord. This way, Your Lordship. 349 00:28:32,267 --> 00:28:34,293 Right up to the head of the stairs. 350 00:28:37,573 --> 00:28:40,543 The best room in the house, it is, too, My Lord. 351 00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:46,772 Right here, My Lord. 352 00:28:51,587 --> 00:28:54,250 I hope this place serves your purpose, My Lord. 353 00:28:56,158 --> 00:28:58,286 Looks adequate but lonesome. 354 00:28:58,394 --> 00:28:59,862 That is soon remedied... 355 00:28:59,962 --> 00:29:01,863 a fine young man like Your Lordship. 356 00:29:01,964 --> 00:29:04,900 It is a cold night to be alone, that's certain. 357 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,027 I can find Your Lordship some good company if you are in the mood. 358 00:29:08,137 --> 00:29:11,301 - A thorough host, aren't you? - Thank you, My Lord. 359 00:29:14,777 --> 00:29:18,214 Fascinating profession, to run an inn. 360 00:29:18,947 --> 00:29:22,281 - You sit still and the world comes to you. - Yes, My Lord. 361 00:29:22,384 --> 00:29:25,582 Will you sup here? I'll have a fire for you presently. 362 00:29:25,721 --> 00:29:28,020 - I will sup below. - Yes, My Lord. 363 00:29:46,942 --> 00:29:49,036 We must have your best room. 364 00:29:49,812 --> 00:29:51,781 My Lord is a great noble. 365 00:29:53,048 --> 00:29:56,507 In fact, you may never again have a guest of his quality. 366 00:29:59,188 --> 00:30:01,657 - You will be well-paid. - You shall have 15 thalers. 367 00:30:01,757 --> 00:30:04,727 - What does the gentleman want? - Accommodation for the night. 368 00:30:04,827 --> 00:30:08,320 Why, only now, this gentleman has taken our last room. 369 00:30:08,464 --> 00:30:09,659 The best one. 370 00:30:16,105 --> 00:30:18,597 Sir, I owe you an apology. 371 00:30:18,774 --> 00:30:21,539 I crave your forgiveness for my mistake. 372 00:30:21,643 --> 00:30:23,202 There is no need, sir. 373 00:30:23,312 --> 00:30:25,508 I took pleasure in earning that thaler. 374 00:30:25,614 --> 00:30:27,583 I keep it for good luck. 375 00:30:27,683 --> 00:30:29,515 I am really mortified. 376 00:30:29,885 --> 00:30:31,683 Of course, sir. 377 00:30:31,787 --> 00:30:33,983 It was the fault of my old coat. 378 00:30:34,089 --> 00:30:37,526 I hope that you will permit me a less superficial acquaintance with you. 379 00:30:37,626 --> 00:30:39,959 Will you favor me with your company at supper? 380 00:30:40,062 --> 00:30:41,030 Gladly. 381 00:30:41,263 --> 00:30:43,357 - If I may be your host. - No. 382 00:30:45,067 --> 00:30:47,434 It must be my privilege to entertain you. 383 00:30:47,803 --> 00:30:51,001 Besides, you come from a country that is close to my heart. 384 00:30:51,173 --> 00:30:52,869 - You know Spain? - Somewhat. 385 00:30:52,975 --> 00:30:55,103 I shall like news of your countrymen. 386 00:30:55,210 --> 00:30:58,237 - My countrymen? - Yes, I shall like news of Velázquez. 387 00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:00,542 Has he painted any new works recently? 388 00:31:00,649 --> 00:31:02,117 What of Calderón? 389 00:31:02,217 --> 00:31:04,846 He writes plays so quickly, there must be new ones. 390 00:31:04,953 --> 00:31:07,013 When were you last in Spain? 391 00:31:07,122 --> 00:31:09,751 I have never been there, only in my thoughts. 392 00:31:09,858 --> 00:31:11,087 How wonderful. 393 00:31:11,193 --> 00:31:13,128 You are a find indeed. 394 00:31:13,595 --> 00:31:15,325 Landlord, come here. 395 00:31:15,464 --> 00:31:16,955 This gentleman will sup with me. 396 00:31:17,065 --> 00:31:19,330 Do your best, and bring something to drink at once. 397 00:31:19,434 --> 00:31:21,403 Yes, right away, My Lord. 398 00:31:21,537 --> 00:31:23,335 You don't know what this means to me. 399 00:31:23,438 --> 00:31:26,567 Have you ever traveled? Have you ever been far from home? 400 00:31:26,675 --> 00:31:29,611 Have you ever been homesick? 401 00:31:29,978 --> 00:31:32,311 I have never been out of Sweden. 402 00:31:32,414 --> 00:31:34,349 Then you don't know what it is to be homesick. 403 00:31:34,449 --> 00:31:37,715 You don't know what it means to feel that sense of loss. 404 00:31:37,819 --> 00:31:40,288 The pain of nostalgia. 405 00:31:40,722 --> 00:31:44,056 One can feel nostalgia for places one has never seen. 406 00:31:45,694 --> 00:31:47,526 Yes, that's quite true. 407 00:31:47,629 --> 00:31:50,656 Young man, that is the second time I have underestimated you. 408 00:31:50,766 --> 00:31:51,961 My Lords. 409 00:31:55,170 --> 00:31:57,833 The foreigner, he promised 15 thalers for a bed. 410 00:31:57,940 --> 00:32:00,307 When did I ever let slip 15 thalers? 411 00:32:00,409 --> 00:32:01,741 To the kitchen! 412 00:32:01,977 --> 00:32:05,778 Imagine, in this icecap, finding someone who knows Spain. 413 00:32:07,649 --> 00:32:10,209 You understand I admire your country. 414 00:32:10,352 --> 00:32:12,753 It's rugged and strong and impressive. 415 00:32:12,854 --> 00:32:14,550 It has all the virile qualities. 416 00:32:14,656 --> 00:32:18,991 And from all your northern fastness here, the Viking spirit has dominated Europe. 417 00:32:19,361 --> 00:32:21,887 But what do the Vikings talk about in the evenings... 418 00:32:21,997 --> 00:32:24,728 when they come home from war and hunting? 419 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,335 Do they know the arts of living? 420 00:32:27,469 --> 00:32:30,701 - You find us uncouth? - Look at these people. 421 00:32:30,806 --> 00:32:32,365 This is my lager. 422 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:54,624 I'll say this for them, they know how to enjoy themselves. 423 00:32:54,730 --> 00:32:59,293 At home, our people are less hearty, but more graceful. 424 00:32:59,735 --> 00:33:01,397 It's all a question of climate. 425 00:33:01,503 --> 00:33:04,302 You can't serenade a woman in a snowstorm. 426 00:33:06,141 --> 00:33:08,133 All the graces in the arts of love... 427 00:33:08,877 --> 00:33:12,541 the elaborate approaches that would make the game of love amusing... 428 00:33:12,814 --> 00:33:16,876 can only be practiced in those countries that quiver in the heat of the sun... 429 00:33:17,686 --> 00:33:22,522 in the still, languorous nights, where every breeze caresses with amour... 430 00:33:23,392 --> 00:33:28,092 love, as we understand it, is a technique that must be developed in hot countries. 431 00:33:29,898 --> 00:33:32,697 - Sounds glamorous and yet-- - What? 432 00:33:33,602 --> 00:33:35,332 Somewhat mechanical. 433 00:33:35,704 --> 00:33:38,196 Evidently you Spaniards make too much fuss about... 434 00:33:38,307 --> 00:33:40,367 a simple, elemental thing like love. 435 00:33:40,475 --> 00:33:42,307 We Swedes are more direct. 436 00:33:42,678 --> 00:33:44,544 But that's civilization. 437 00:33:44,646 --> 00:33:46,672 Disguise the elemental with the glamorous. 438 00:33:46,782 --> 00:33:48,910 A great love has to be nourished, has to be-- 439 00:33:49,017 --> 00:33:50,349 Great love? 440 00:33:51,019 --> 00:33:53,079 Don't you believe in its possibility? 441 00:33:53,188 --> 00:33:56,556 In its possibility, yes, but not in its existence. 442 00:33:57,125 --> 00:34:01,085 A great love, perfect love, is an illusion. 443 00:34:01,730 --> 00:34:04,598 It is the golden fable of which we all dream. 444 00:34:05,267 --> 00:34:07,600 But in ordinary life, it does not happen. 445 00:34:07,703 --> 00:34:10,901 In ordinary life, one must be content with less. 446 00:34:13,475 --> 00:34:16,309 So young and yet so disillusioned. 447 00:34:16,545 --> 00:34:19,037 Young man, you are cynical. 448 00:34:19,614 --> 00:34:21,845 Not at all. Merely realistic. 449 00:34:21,950 --> 00:34:23,748 Here you are, My Lords. 450 00:34:24,619 --> 00:34:27,282 - Six! - Nine! 451 00:34:27,989 --> 00:34:30,857 - It's the truth. - I say you are a liar. 452 00:34:31,226 --> 00:34:34,355 I am in the Queen's army, I know what I am talking about. 453 00:34:34,529 --> 00:34:35,895 - Six! - Nine! 454 00:34:37,566 --> 00:34:40,695 Yonder are two gentlemen, we will ask them. 455 00:34:41,002 --> 00:34:43,995 A tankard of ale that I am right, agreed? 456 00:34:44,272 --> 00:34:45,240 Agreed! 457 00:34:46,074 --> 00:34:47,633 - Six! - Six is right. 458 00:34:47,743 --> 00:34:48,836 Nine! 459 00:34:52,614 --> 00:34:56,278 Sir, do you know the court in Stockholm? 460 00:34:57,185 --> 00:34:59,086 Yes, I have been there. 461 00:34:59,254 --> 00:35:01,814 Then you can settle our wager for us. 462 00:35:02,090 --> 00:35:05,060 This drunken pig, who is my friend... 463 00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:08,760 maintains that the Queen, God bless her... 464 00:35:08,997 --> 00:35:11,398 has had six lovers this last year. 465 00:35:11,733 --> 00:35:15,966 I claim that's a disloyal, libelous statement. 466 00:35:17,572 --> 00:35:18,904 And what do you say? 467 00:35:19,007 --> 00:35:22,307 I say there were nine. Six, indeed! 468 00:35:22,444 --> 00:35:25,573 - Why, this is a very loyal fellow. - Wait a minute. 469 00:35:26,214 --> 00:35:29,981 I'd like to know first what the gentleman's opinion is worth. 470 00:35:31,219 --> 00:35:33,711 Do you know anything about the matter? 471 00:35:34,656 --> 00:35:37,125 Yes, I know something, but... 472 00:35:37,492 --> 00:35:39,120 I am not at liberty to speak. 473 00:35:39,227 --> 00:35:41,628 Not at liberty? I give you liberty! 474 00:35:41,730 --> 00:35:43,699 - Let's have the truth! - Yeah, the truth! 475 00:35:43,799 --> 00:35:45,199 That it is six. 476 00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:47,700 If you know anything, you know it's nine. 477 00:35:47,803 --> 00:35:48,930 Gentlemen, this is unfair. 478 00:35:49,037 --> 00:35:51,029 You can't bully him. 479 00:35:51,406 --> 00:35:53,568 - You're a liar. - Who's a liar? 480 00:36:11,593 --> 00:36:12,788 Stop fighting. 481 00:36:13,528 --> 00:36:15,190 I'll tell you the truth. 482 00:36:16,531 --> 00:36:21,469 Gentlemen, I have the painful duty of telling you that you are both wrong... 483 00:36:22,337 --> 00:36:24,397 the sixes and the nines. 484 00:36:26,775 --> 00:36:31,213 The truth is that the Queen has had 12 lovers this past year... 485 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,312 a round dozen. 486 00:36:34,149 --> 00:36:36,141 Long live the Queen! 487 00:36:45,293 --> 00:36:49,128 Any lie will find believers as long as you tell it with force enough. 488 00:36:49,264 --> 00:36:50,857 That was a gallant fight. 489 00:36:50,966 --> 00:36:53,026 Tell me, is there any truth to all these rumors? 490 00:36:53,134 --> 00:36:55,694 In Spain, we hear that the Queen is a bluestocking... 491 00:36:55,804 --> 00:36:58,603 who cares more for learning than for love. 492 00:36:58,974 --> 00:37:01,341 What do they say of her in Rome, I wonder? 493 00:37:01,643 --> 00:37:03,874 In Constantinople, in Algeria? 494 00:37:04,012 --> 00:37:07,346 Probably the farther from home, the nearer the truth. 495 00:37:09,084 --> 00:37:11,781 I think you gentlemen are in good sympathy. 496 00:37:12,454 --> 00:37:15,390 If I am not too bold, I could suggest a way by which... 497 00:37:15,490 --> 00:37:17,550 this gentleman may be accommodated. 498 00:37:17,659 --> 00:37:18,683 It would be very welcome. 499 00:37:18,793 --> 00:37:21,160 Your room, sir, is the best in the house. 500 00:37:21,296 --> 00:37:24,164 If Your Lordship would agree to share it-- 501 00:37:24,299 --> 00:37:28,327 I am loath to force myself upon you, sir, but I'll tell you of Toledo... 502 00:37:28,436 --> 00:37:31,964 and Cádiz, and the bullfights at Madrid, the dancing of Seville-- 503 00:37:32,073 --> 00:37:33,769 The bed, as you know, is large. 504 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:36,936 You might both lie on it and never know that you were not alone. 505 00:37:37,045 --> 00:37:39,207 I feel that we have much to say to each other. 506 00:37:39,314 --> 00:37:42,876 We've but broached the talk of men and countries, of love and manners. 507 00:37:43,285 --> 00:37:45,948 It is true that I find talking to you very pleasant-- 508 00:37:46,054 --> 00:37:47,249 What do you say, sir? 509 00:37:47,355 --> 00:37:50,484 I'm prepared to talk, I'm prepared to be quiet, whichever you prefer. 510 00:37:50,592 --> 00:37:52,993 My sleeping manners are beyond reproach. 511 00:37:53,094 --> 00:37:55,563 You would be doing a great service. 512 00:37:55,664 --> 00:38:00,364 It's more I ask for than a bed for the night, it's a chance to talk of home. 513 00:38:01,036 --> 00:38:03,130 I will give up my room for you, gladly. 514 00:38:03,238 --> 00:38:05,537 Give up? I wouldn't hear of it. 515 00:38:06,007 --> 00:38:07,498 The truth is... 516 00:38:07,642 --> 00:38:11,044 please forgive me, sir, but since I was a little child... 517 00:38:11,146 --> 00:38:13,741 I've always disliked sharing my room with anyone. 518 00:38:13,949 --> 00:38:15,645 You take the room and I'll go elsewhere. 519 00:38:15,750 --> 00:38:18,618 I wouldn't hear of it, there isn't another free bed in the inn. 520 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:20,348 Well, I'll sit before the fire. 521 00:38:21,556 --> 00:38:23,388 Am I so unpresentable? 522 00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:26,492 Do my manners disgust you? Does my speech bore you? 523 00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:30,327 If you find me so unbearable, forgive me for having imposed myself on you. 524 00:38:30,432 --> 00:38:32,594 - Good night, sir. - Please, sir. 525 00:38:32,934 --> 00:38:35,665 Say no more about it, I shall sit before the fire all night. 526 00:38:35,770 --> 00:38:39,468 No, you couldn't, I wouldn't.... 527 00:38:43,778 --> 00:38:47,715 - You shall share my room with me. - Thank you very much, I'll be delighted. 528 00:38:47,816 --> 00:38:50,513 If you are ever in Spain, I'll return the hospitality. 529 00:38:50,619 --> 00:38:53,418 Would Your Lordships like to retire now? 530 00:38:55,890 --> 00:38:57,791 I think so, we are both tired. 531 00:39:05,667 --> 00:39:07,226 Good night, Aage. 532 00:39:08,503 --> 00:39:11,063 Pushing through these snowdrifts is not like... 533 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,208 strolling under the orange trees at home. 534 00:39:13,308 --> 00:39:15,004 It takes muscle. 535 00:39:19,648 --> 00:39:22,243 I wish you both good night, My Lords. 536 00:39:22,350 --> 00:39:25,878 I know you will be comfortable, I've always had good reports on this room. 537 00:39:25,987 --> 00:39:28,047 The room is well-behaved, is it? 538 00:39:28,156 --> 00:39:30,682 I mean, My Lord, I've never had any complaints. 539 00:39:34,396 --> 00:39:37,230 Shall I help you off with your boots, sir? 540 00:39:37,332 --> 00:39:38,800 No, thank you. 541 00:39:39,567 --> 00:39:41,763 - What's your name? - Elsa. 542 00:39:41,936 --> 00:39:44,371 You're very pretty, Elsa. Are you also good? 543 00:39:44,472 --> 00:39:46,668 When I do not like a man, yes. 544 00:39:46,975 --> 00:39:48,500 That's true virtue. 545 00:39:48,677 --> 00:39:51,408 The basis of all morality in a sentence. 546 00:39:51,513 --> 00:39:54,415 - Can I get you anything, sir? - No, thank you. 547 00:39:56,451 --> 00:39:59,751 The master says you are to have everything you need. 548 00:40:07,328 --> 00:40:11,197 If you need anything, my room is at the end of the passage. 549 00:40:15,704 --> 00:40:18,799 She prefers you. You have the better chance. 550 00:40:19,340 --> 00:40:22,242 I give her up gladly, if you are interested. 551 00:40:23,378 --> 00:40:25,074 No, I am not. 552 00:40:35,590 --> 00:40:38,424 Don't you think, since we are going to share the same bed... 553 00:40:38,526 --> 00:40:40,051 we should be introduced? 554 00:40:40,161 --> 00:40:43,461 I am Don Antonio José Miguel de Prado, Count Pimentel... 555 00:40:43,698 --> 00:40:46,361 Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Envoy Extraordinary... 556 00:40:46,468 --> 00:40:50,166 from His Majesty Philip, King of Spain, Aragon and Castile. 557 00:40:50,271 --> 00:40:51,864 I am Count Dohna. 558 00:41:02,884 --> 00:41:04,648 You must visit Spain. 559 00:41:05,653 --> 00:41:06,985 I hope to. 560 00:41:07,288 --> 00:41:09,189 You shall stay with me. 561 00:41:15,163 --> 00:41:19,191 As a matter of fact, you may find our way of life very artificial. 562 00:41:21,269 --> 00:41:23,795 We make a fine art of leisure. 563 00:41:26,241 --> 00:41:29,734 Although we are ambitious as you are to dominate Europe... 564 00:41:31,846 --> 00:41:34,111 we are not so intense about it. 565 00:41:35,150 --> 00:41:36,641 We like to.... 566 00:41:39,954 --> 00:41:42,651 We mix our ambitions with other things. 567 00:41:47,061 --> 00:41:50,225 Which side do you sleep on, your right or your left? 568 00:41:51,232 --> 00:41:54,202 I don't know, I never thought of it. 569 00:41:56,004 --> 00:41:59,441 They say that a man should always sleep on his left side. 570 00:41:59,541 --> 00:42:01,567 Keep his sword arm free. 571 00:42:02,443 --> 00:42:04,969 It's hereditary. It's instinct. 572 00:42:09,951 --> 00:42:11,749 Aren't you going to undress? 573 00:42:14,255 --> 00:42:15,279 Yes. 574 00:43:17,118 --> 00:43:19,781 Of course, it had to be. 575 00:43:20,855 --> 00:43:23,654 I felt it. 576 00:43:24,525 --> 00:43:25,857 A presence. 577 00:43:28,296 --> 00:43:31,266 Life is so gloriously improbable. 578 00:43:55,657 --> 00:43:56,852 My Lord? 579 00:43:57,926 --> 00:44:00,953 - What is it? - It is still snowing, My Lord. 580 00:44:01,596 --> 00:44:02,655 Good. 581 00:44:04,632 --> 00:44:07,932 They say we may not be able to move for three days. 582 00:44:12,941 --> 00:44:15,638 At what hour will Your Lordship get up? 583 00:44:16,711 --> 00:44:18,441 I shall not get up. 584 00:44:22,317 --> 00:44:23,751 Very good, My Lord. 585 00:44:24,919 --> 00:44:26,854 Will you take chocolate? 586 00:44:27,889 --> 00:44:29,357 Yes, at once. 587 00:44:31,459 --> 00:44:36,295 Will the other gentleman take chocolate? 588 00:44:38,499 --> 00:44:39,523 Yes. 589 00:44:41,336 --> 00:44:43,805 Very good, My Lord, two chocolates. 590 00:45:20,241 --> 00:45:23,473 They warmed and ripened in the Spanish sun. 591 00:45:24,312 --> 00:45:26,042 My hacienda is overrun with them. 592 00:45:33,287 --> 00:45:35,518 In the season of the grape harvest... 593 00:45:35,623 --> 00:45:38,957 the air smells purple. 594 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,028 Purple grapes. 595 00:48:58,893 --> 00:49:00,623 What are you doing? 596 00:49:02,730 --> 00:49:05,427 I've been memorizing this room. 597 00:49:07,034 --> 00:49:08,593 In the future... 598 00:49:09,303 --> 00:49:11,101 in my memory... 599 00:49:11,672 --> 00:49:14,369 I shall live a great deal in this room. 600 00:49:17,044 --> 00:49:18,273 You wait. 601 00:49:18,679 --> 00:49:21,274 I'll show you the whole living world. 602 00:49:29,390 --> 00:49:31,416 I have imagined happiness... 603 00:49:32,526 --> 00:49:35,621 but happiness you cannot imagine... 604 00:49:35,896 --> 00:49:38,161 happiness you must feel... 605 00:49:38,299 --> 00:49:40,234 joy you must feel. 606 00:49:41,402 --> 00:49:44,566 And this great joy I feel now.... 607 00:49:46,774 --> 00:49:48,538 - Antonio? - What? 608 00:49:51,045 --> 00:49:53,674 This is how the Lord must have felt... 609 00:49:54,015 --> 00:49:56,382 when he first beheld a finished world... 610 00:49:56,851 --> 00:50:01,118 with all his creatures breathing, living. 611 00:50:15,369 --> 00:50:16,701 And to think... 612 00:50:17,271 --> 00:50:20,400 a few snowdrifts might have separated us forever. 613 00:50:22,643 --> 00:50:25,010 We might have been born in different centuries. 614 00:50:25,112 --> 00:50:27,581 No, I never would have permitted that. 615 00:50:29,717 --> 00:50:32,312 We're inevitable. Don't you feel it? 616 00:50:34,455 --> 00:50:35,616 I feel it. 617 00:50:36,791 --> 00:50:39,386 But you, how can you be so sure? 618 00:50:39,493 --> 00:50:41,052 You know me so little. 619 00:50:42,196 --> 00:50:45,098 That's true. There's a mystery in you. 620 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,869 Is there not in every human being? 621 00:50:49,303 --> 00:50:50,362 Yes. 622 00:50:51,839 --> 00:50:53,535 Tell me, you said you would... 623 00:50:53,641 --> 00:50:56,543 why did you come to this inn dressed as a man? 624 00:50:59,613 --> 00:51:02,947 In my home, I'm very constrained. 625 00:51:04,452 --> 00:51:07,251 Everything is arranged very formally. 626 00:51:08,122 --> 00:51:10,114 A conventional household. 627 00:51:10,991 --> 00:51:12,084 Very. 628 00:51:14,061 --> 00:51:16,394 I like to get away from it sometimes... 629 00:51:16,564 --> 00:51:17,759 to be free. 630 00:51:19,734 --> 00:51:21,430 I can understand that. 631 00:51:26,807 --> 00:51:28,708 You're going to court. 632 00:51:29,543 --> 00:51:31,876 What if the Queen keeps you there? 633 00:51:31,979 --> 00:51:33,607 Let her try. 634 00:51:37,251 --> 00:51:40,244 If half of the Queen's reputation is well-founded.... 635 00:51:40,354 --> 00:51:42,346 After you, she'll be tiresome! 636 00:51:44,992 --> 00:51:48,929 To have found anyone in this wilderness would have been miracle enough. 637 00:51:49,930 --> 00:51:51,865 But to have found you... 638 00:51:52,199 --> 00:51:54,065 this is too improbable. 639 00:51:55,035 --> 00:51:56,731 I don't believe in you. 640 00:51:57,104 --> 00:51:58,834 You're an illusion. 641 00:51:59,006 --> 00:52:00,872 You'll vanish before my eyes. 642 00:52:06,781 --> 00:52:08,010 Goodbye. 643 00:52:08,949 --> 00:52:10,850 I shall live for our meeting. 644 00:52:10,985 --> 00:52:12,112 I, too. 645 00:52:12,987 --> 00:52:15,183 If you could travel with me to Stockholm.... 646 00:52:15,289 --> 00:52:16,780 Is it impossible? 647 00:52:17,358 --> 00:52:19,122 Yes, I must go alone. 648 00:52:20,961 --> 00:52:22,486 I loathe this separation. 649 00:52:22,596 --> 00:52:25,566 As soon as I am quit of this court business, it won't be long. 650 00:52:25,666 --> 00:52:27,897 We meet again, and then we do not separate. 651 00:52:29,270 --> 00:52:31,398 You promise we'll meet again in Stockholm? 652 00:52:31,505 --> 00:52:32,803 I promise. 653 00:52:34,275 --> 00:52:35,903 What if I never see you again? 654 00:52:36,010 --> 00:52:38,536 What if I curse myself for having let you go? 655 00:52:39,713 --> 00:52:42,308 I promise you that we shall meet again. 656 00:52:44,552 --> 00:52:46,748 - Goodbye. - Bye. 657 00:53:28,863 --> 00:53:29,956 Ebba. 658 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,032 Your Majesty sent for me. 659 00:53:35,503 --> 00:53:38,166 How are you, Ebba? You look so pale. 660 00:53:38,372 --> 00:53:41,672 Your Majesty, since I lost your favor, I have not slept. 661 00:53:43,043 --> 00:53:46,571 I was hurt by you, Ebba, and I lost my temper. Forgive me. 662 00:53:49,083 --> 00:53:51,018 You shall marry Count Jacob. 663 00:53:51,118 --> 00:53:53,587 You make me so happy, Your Majesty. 664 00:53:55,222 --> 00:53:57,782 Your Majesty looks wonderful tonight. 665 00:54:00,194 --> 00:54:02,322 The Spanish envoy will be dazzled. 666 00:54:04,899 --> 00:54:06,959 The last one was a shriveled old man. 667 00:54:07,067 --> 00:54:09,400 I hear this one's young and handsome. 668 00:54:09,703 --> 00:54:11,501 Where did you hear that? 669 00:54:11,839 --> 00:54:14,707 My maid met the Ambassador's valet. 670 00:54:14,975 --> 00:54:18,776 And she said that he said that the Spanish envoy-- 671 00:54:18,879 --> 00:54:21,940 The Lord Treasurer attends Your Majesty. 672 00:54:44,138 --> 00:54:45,572 Is all in waiting? 673 00:54:45,673 --> 00:54:47,164 We have time enough. 674 00:54:47,274 --> 00:54:49,470 I wouldn't like to keep the court waiting. 675 00:54:49,577 --> 00:54:51,569 You kept them waiting for five days. 676 00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:54,672 Where have you been? The whole court has been in an uproar. 677 00:54:54,782 --> 00:54:56,683 - Did you go to Sala? - Perhaps. 678 00:54:56,784 --> 00:54:58,810 You did not go there, we sent messengers. 679 00:54:58,919 --> 00:55:01,616 - Then I am glad I did not go. - Why did you leave? 680 00:55:01,722 --> 00:55:03,588 - To get away. - From me? 681 00:55:03,691 --> 00:55:05,216 From all of you. 682 00:55:05,326 --> 00:55:07,488 Why did you refuse to see me this afternoon? 683 00:55:07,595 --> 00:55:10,258 Why? So many questions. 684 00:55:10,564 --> 00:55:13,625 There would be fewer questions if there were more answers. 685 00:55:14,134 --> 00:55:15,659 What's happened to you? 686 00:55:16,103 --> 00:55:18,504 You've never looked so lovely as you do now. 687 00:55:36,824 --> 00:55:41,353 His Excellency, Don Antonio de Prado, Count Pimentel... 688 00:55:41,695 --> 00:55:43,960 Knight of the Holy Roman Empire... 689 00:55:44,131 --> 00:55:48,728 Envoy Extraordinary from His Most Gracious Majesty, Philip IV... 690 00:55:49,069 --> 00:55:52,005 King of Spain, Aragon and Castile. 691 00:56:37,317 --> 00:56:39,013 Welcome, Your Excellency. 692 00:56:39,620 --> 00:56:42,317 Your Majesty, I have come on a special.... 693 00:56:56,036 --> 00:56:59,006 Your Excellency will convey to the King of Spain... 694 00:56:59,106 --> 00:57:01,769 our high appreciation of the honor he does us... 695 00:57:02,042 --> 00:57:04,944 in sending to our court a person of your quality. 696 00:57:10,851 --> 00:57:13,286 Your Excellency has the King's letter? 697 00:57:33,741 --> 00:57:35,232 Your Majesty... 698 00:57:36,410 --> 00:57:39,744 I have come on a special mission from His Majesty of Spain... 699 00:57:40,481 --> 00:57:42,814 on a matter of great public importance. 700 00:57:43,250 --> 00:57:45,185 Will Your Majesty hear it now? 701 00:57:45,819 --> 00:57:49,483 We will hear it presently, in private audience. 702 00:57:51,091 --> 00:57:55,324 In the meantime, be assured of our warm consideration to your sovereign... 703 00:57:55,763 --> 00:57:57,595 and to you, his envoy. 704 00:57:59,166 --> 00:58:01,328 I humbly thank Your Majesty. 705 00:58:03,570 --> 00:58:06,233 We admire greatly the powers of your country. 706 00:58:06,807 --> 00:58:11,074 Not only your skill in statecraft, but in the sciences and in the arts. 707 00:58:11,178 --> 00:58:13,147 Your Majesty is most gracious. 708 00:58:14,181 --> 00:58:17,413 The repute you have for learning is known to all Europe. 709 00:58:18,352 --> 00:58:21,049 We look forward to our further meeting with you. 710 00:58:22,389 --> 00:58:25,154 We would like news of your men of genius... 711 00:58:25,726 --> 00:58:28,389 of Velázquez and Calderón. 712 00:58:29,563 --> 00:58:31,862 We will hear willingly of your cities... 713 00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:34,459 Toledo and Cádiz... 714 00:58:35,169 --> 00:58:37,104 Madrid and Seville. 715 00:58:38,272 --> 00:58:42,334 My country could have no greater tribute than Your Majesty's curiosity. 716 00:58:44,011 --> 00:58:47,470 In honoring your great men, we elevate ourselves. 717 00:59:35,229 --> 00:59:37,425 The Lord Treasurer is waiting, Your Majesty. 718 00:59:37,931 --> 00:59:39,160 I can't see him. 719 00:59:39,266 --> 00:59:40,962 He says it's very urgent. 720 00:59:41,068 --> 00:59:43,936 - Tell him I don't want to see him. - Yes, Your Majesty. 721 00:59:56,083 --> 00:59:57,278 Well, Countess? 722 00:59:57,384 --> 01:00:00,377 The Queen can't see you, Your Excellency. 723 01:00:00,787 --> 01:00:02,255 You mean she won't. 724 01:00:02,489 --> 01:00:04,253 She won't, Your Excellency. 725 01:00:09,296 --> 01:00:11,424 I trust you are well, My Lord. 726 01:00:14,301 --> 01:00:15,894 I am beholden to Your Lordship. 727 01:00:16,270 --> 01:00:19,001 I apologize for the rigors of our winter. 728 01:00:19,139 --> 01:00:21,973 I believe the snow delayed you on your way here. 729 01:00:22,075 --> 01:00:23,475 A few days. It was nothing. 730 01:00:23,577 --> 01:00:25,671 I hope you found suitable shelter. 731 01:00:25,779 --> 01:00:27,805 Our country inns are rough. 732 01:00:27,915 --> 01:00:30,180 I did very well. Thank you, Your Lordship. 733 01:00:30,284 --> 01:00:33,777 The climate here, My Lord, is fit only for those who are used to it. 734 01:00:33,887 --> 01:00:36,083 It's not suited to foreigners. 735 01:00:36,723 --> 01:00:40,626 I advise you to protect yourself against it. You must be very careful. 736 01:00:41,495 --> 01:00:44,727 Is this a threat, My Lord? 737 01:00:45,332 --> 01:00:46,823 It's a warning. 738 01:00:47,834 --> 01:00:49,393 A friendly warning. 739 01:00:53,740 --> 01:00:55,732 The Queen will see Your Excellency. 740 01:01:16,530 --> 01:01:17,793 Antonio. 741 01:01:23,236 --> 01:01:24,465 Your Majesty. 742 01:01:24,571 --> 01:01:26,039 You are angry. 743 01:01:26,740 --> 01:01:28,208 I'm not angry. 744 01:01:28,475 --> 01:01:30,910 I appreciate a jest. A royal jest. 745 01:01:31,712 --> 01:01:33,704 However, the diversion being over... 746 01:01:33,814 --> 01:01:36,306 may I conclude my mission to your unusual country? 747 01:01:36,416 --> 01:01:38,749 My master, the King of Spain, has commanded me to-- 748 01:01:38,852 --> 01:01:41,412 Must we talk about the King of Spain? 749 01:01:41,822 --> 01:01:44,257 Antonio, I feel just the same. 750 01:01:45,092 --> 01:01:46,321 I don't. 751 01:01:46,893 --> 01:01:49,089 I feel unlucky being the thirteenth. 752 01:01:49,196 --> 01:01:51,722 No, but I was lying terribly. 753 01:01:52,332 --> 01:01:54,301 And now you don't love me anymore? 754 01:01:54,401 --> 01:01:56,302 Don't despair, Your Majesty. 755 01:01:56,970 --> 01:02:00,998 My master, the King of Spain, has the honor of asking your hand in marriage. 756 01:02:02,476 --> 01:02:05,310 It isn't pleasant to have betrayed one's king... 757 01:02:05,412 --> 01:02:08,007 to have dishonored him in a far country. 758 01:02:08,181 --> 01:02:11,481 Nevertheless, unworthy as I am, permit me to present... 759 01:02:11,585 --> 01:02:13,281 His Majesty Phillip... 760 01:02:13,387 --> 01:02:15,947 King of Spain, Aragon and Castile... 761 01:02:16,823 --> 01:02:19,088 your royal, humble suitor. 762 01:02:20,027 --> 01:02:22,326 I meant no dishonor to him or to you. 763 01:02:24,898 --> 01:02:26,457 Does he look like that? 764 01:02:27,834 --> 01:02:29,427 I suppose he does. 765 01:02:30,203 --> 01:02:32,832 I have quite a collection of royal portraits. 766 01:02:33,407 --> 01:02:35,672 My suitors usually come in oil. 767 01:02:36,143 --> 01:02:39,375 And I've kept them, because I love a good painting. 768 01:02:41,148 --> 01:02:44,312 Why did you go out of your way to make me ridiculous? 769 01:02:44,418 --> 01:02:47,013 All that idiotic talk of love and beauty. 770 01:02:47,687 --> 01:02:49,053 It made my heart beat. 771 01:02:49,156 --> 01:02:51,751 It made me dream like a fool and talk like one. 772 01:02:51,858 --> 01:02:55,659 I thought you'd understand, when you saw me again, what had happened. 773 01:02:55,762 --> 01:02:58,527 That it had been so enchanting to be a woman. 774 01:02:59,166 --> 01:03:02,694 Not a queen, just a woman in a man's arms. 775 01:03:03,503 --> 01:03:05,870 Yes, if you'd left my heart alone. 776 01:03:05,972 --> 01:03:07,770 But I fell in love with you. 777 01:03:07,874 --> 01:03:09,502 I love you, Antonio. 778 01:03:10,310 --> 01:03:13,803 Look, the coin you gave me for helping you. 779 01:03:14,748 --> 01:03:17,513 I've slept with it in my hand each night. 780 01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:22,882 Forgive me for being a queen. 781 01:03:23,824 --> 01:03:25,588 What do you want of me? 782 01:03:26,393 --> 01:03:27,952 What do I want? 783 01:03:28,829 --> 01:03:29,956 What? 784 01:03:32,466 --> 01:03:34,765 I want back that room in the inn... 785 01:03:34,868 --> 01:03:36,496 the snow that fell... 786 01:03:36,937 --> 01:03:39,338 the warm fire and the sweet hours... 787 01:03:40,540 --> 01:03:41,906 beloved one. 788 01:03:49,950 --> 01:03:51,282 Christina. 789 01:03:57,757 --> 01:03:59,726 Just as you say, My Lord. 790 01:03:59,826 --> 01:04:01,761 Go out into the streets. 791 01:04:01,862 --> 01:04:03,797 Talk to your fellow citizens. 792 01:04:04,131 --> 01:04:05,394 Explain it to them. 793 01:04:05,499 --> 01:04:07,263 We will, Your Lordship. 794 01:04:07,367 --> 01:04:09,063 This is for the good of Sweden. 795 01:04:09,169 --> 01:04:10,137 Yes, My Lord. 796 01:04:10,237 --> 01:04:12,570 You understand, then, our purpose? 797 01:04:12,806 --> 01:04:14,274 And our motive? 798 01:04:14,374 --> 01:04:15,672 Yes, Your Lordship. 799 01:04:15,775 --> 01:04:18,142 We are happy to be of service to Sweden. 800 01:04:18,745 --> 01:04:22,079 I tell you, Sweden is facing the greatest danger in her history. 801 01:04:22,182 --> 01:04:23,548 Greater than war. 802 01:04:23,650 --> 01:04:26,916 And it's a danger that hides in the highest councils of the nation... 803 01:04:27,020 --> 01:04:28,147 in the palace itself. 804 01:04:28,255 --> 01:04:29,848 In the very chamber of the Queen. 805 01:04:29,956 --> 01:04:32,983 Nay, I do not charge the queen with disloyalty. 806 01:04:33,226 --> 01:04:34,626 But she is under a spell. 807 01:04:34,728 --> 01:04:36,697 The spell of Spanish witchcraft. 808 01:04:36,796 --> 01:04:39,698 The Spaniard is here with a proposal from Philip of Spain. 809 01:04:39,799 --> 01:04:41,097 Why doesn't she send him away? 810 01:04:41,201 --> 01:04:43,227 Do you want a Spanish sovereign? 811 01:04:43,336 --> 01:04:44,463 No! 812 01:04:44,571 --> 01:04:46,836 Do you want to give up the palace and faith... 813 01:04:46,940 --> 01:04:49,876 for which our fathers fought and died, to go to Rome? 814 01:04:49,976 --> 01:04:51,137 No! 815 01:04:52,012 --> 01:04:53,878 You're the most popular man in the kingdom. 816 01:04:53,980 --> 01:04:56,848 You've only to appear in public and the mob starts shouting. 817 01:04:56,950 --> 01:05:01,115 You're the only one who can demand of the Queen to send the Spaniard home. 818 01:05:01,621 --> 01:05:04,853 You're the only one who can save Sweden from this calamity. 819 01:05:05,825 --> 01:05:07,487 The Council awaits Her Majesty. 820 01:05:07,594 --> 01:05:09,688 Her Majesty drives abroad with the Spaniard. 821 01:05:09,796 --> 01:05:11,765 The business of the state may wait. 822 01:05:11,865 --> 01:05:14,562 Whatever the Queen does, Sweden will not suffer. 823 01:05:37,490 --> 01:05:38,890 Send that Spaniard back home! 824 01:05:38,992 --> 01:05:40,085 Send him away! 825 01:05:40,193 --> 01:05:42,025 Down with the Spaniard! 826 01:05:45,165 --> 01:05:47,828 Evidently, my people, who are said to love me... 827 01:05:48,501 --> 01:05:50,299 do not wish me to be happy. 828 01:05:50,403 --> 01:05:52,497 Our Prince Charles, who has fought for us... 829 01:05:52,606 --> 01:05:54,302 is kept apart and scorned! 830 01:05:54,407 --> 01:05:56,842 The Queen disports herself with a Spaniard! 831 01:05:56,943 --> 01:05:59,606 I ask you, Swedes, will you tolerate this infamy? 832 01:05:59,713 --> 01:06:00,874 No! 833 01:06:00,981 --> 01:06:03,212 Then do something about it! 834 01:06:04,317 --> 01:06:05,615 The Queen! 835 01:06:24,204 --> 01:06:26,173 See? She rides openly with him! 836 01:06:26,273 --> 01:06:27,673 Down with the Spaniard! 837 01:06:27,774 --> 01:06:28,742 Come on! 838 01:07:32,472 --> 01:07:34,464 And I charge you, Magnus... 839 01:07:35,141 --> 01:07:38,168 with having deliberately aroused the masses against the Queen. 840 01:07:38,278 --> 01:07:41,646 No, the facts speak for themselves, Chancellor. 841 01:07:41,748 --> 01:07:43,979 The Church will never permit such a marriage. 842 01:07:44,084 --> 01:07:46,178 The Queen does not contemplate such a marriage. 843 01:07:46,286 --> 01:07:49,051 Then why doesn't she send the Spaniard home? 844 01:07:59,499 --> 01:08:03,266 I have been driving in the streets and I have seen disgraceful things. 845 01:08:04,003 --> 01:08:05,995 How is it that we are not better policed? 846 01:08:06,106 --> 01:08:09,941 In insulting our guests, they insult us. Why is this not made clear to them? 847 01:08:10,777 --> 01:08:12,973 The people resent this man, Your Majesty. 848 01:08:13,079 --> 01:08:14,513 Not in his own person... 849 01:08:14,614 --> 01:08:18,779 but as interfering with our hopes of your marriage to Prince Charles. 850 01:08:18,985 --> 01:08:20,851 You have fed them this hope... 851 01:08:20,954 --> 01:08:24,482 when you have known all the time that I have no wish to gratify it. 852 01:08:24,591 --> 01:08:26,890 I hold you responsible. All of you. 853 01:08:26,993 --> 01:08:30,760 Your Majesty is not considering to accept King Philip's offer? 854 01:08:30,864 --> 01:08:31,888 No. 855 01:08:31,998 --> 01:08:35,560 In that case, the presence here of the Spanish envoy is superfluous. 856 01:08:36,069 --> 01:08:37,662 He could go home. 857 01:08:38,071 --> 01:08:39,095 Why? 858 01:08:39,406 --> 01:08:41,500 Do I peer into the lives of my subjects... 859 01:08:41,608 --> 01:08:43,839 and dictate to them whom they shall love? 860 01:08:43,943 --> 01:08:46,174 Will I serve them less if I am happy? 861 01:08:46,613 --> 01:08:50,380 What strangely foolish title is it that calls me ruler... 862 01:08:50,550 --> 01:08:53,952 if in what concerns me most nearly, I'm to have no voice? 863 01:08:54,053 --> 01:08:55,749 It is intolerable. 864 01:08:56,289 --> 01:08:57,985 There is a freedom which is mine... 865 01:08:58,091 --> 01:09:00,583 and which the state cannot take away. 866 01:09:00,693 --> 01:09:03,424 To the unreasonable tyranny of the mob... 867 01:09:03,630 --> 01:09:06,395 and to the malicious tyranny of palace intrigue... 868 01:09:06,499 --> 01:09:08,058 I shall not submit. 869 01:09:08,601 --> 01:09:09,967 Know this, all of you. 870 01:09:20,013 --> 01:09:20,981 General? 871 01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,777 Your Majesty, the crowd demands to see you. 872 01:09:23,883 --> 01:09:26,079 They demand entrance to the palace. 873 01:09:26,586 --> 01:09:28,578 Are you pleased, Count Magnus? 874 01:09:29,088 --> 01:09:30,852 There's no cause for alarm. 875 01:09:30,957 --> 01:09:32,425 I'm not alarmed, General. 876 01:09:32,525 --> 01:09:35,359 The guards are ready and waiting. Their guns are primed. 877 01:09:35,562 --> 01:09:37,224 Shall I order them to fire? 878 01:09:37,330 --> 01:09:38,320 No, General. 879 01:09:38,431 --> 01:09:40,730 - Shall I arrest the ringleaders? - No. 880 01:09:41,201 --> 01:09:42,999 Then what shall I do, Your Majesty? 881 01:09:43,102 --> 01:09:44,126 Let them in, General. 882 01:09:44,237 --> 01:09:46,399 Your Majesty, you cannot do that. 883 01:09:46,506 --> 01:09:48,099 But, Your Majesty.... 884 01:09:49,609 --> 01:09:50,975 Let them in. 885 01:10:00,086 --> 01:10:03,318 - Let no one follow me. - Your Majesty, you must not go alone. 886 01:10:03,423 --> 01:10:05,585 I am not afraid of my subjects. 887 01:10:14,234 --> 01:10:15,702 Dismiss the guards. 888 01:10:17,704 --> 01:10:20,435 Right face. Forward march. 889 01:10:23,810 --> 01:10:25,210 Open the doors. 890 01:10:25,645 --> 01:10:27,079 Your Majesty.... 891 01:11:05,318 --> 01:11:07,048 Well, my subjects... 892 01:11:07,820 --> 01:11:09,686 is it a friendly visit? 893 01:11:12,125 --> 01:11:13,821 Will not one of you speak? 894 01:11:17,030 --> 01:11:18,999 No petition? No speech? 895 01:11:19,766 --> 01:11:22,429 You come, then, just for a glimpse of me? 896 01:11:25,271 --> 01:11:26,569 Send the Spaniard home! 897 01:11:40,820 --> 01:11:43,551 You, my good man, come here. 898 01:11:50,096 --> 01:11:51,394 What do you do? 899 01:11:52,632 --> 01:11:54,692 I am a blacksmith, Your Majesty. 900 01:11:56,302 --> 01:11:57,998 Are you a good blacksmith? 901 01:11:58,371 --> 01:11:59,430 I should be. 902 01:11:59,539 --> 01:12:03,738 My father was a blacksmith before me, and his father was before him. 903 01:12:05,712 --> 01:12:07,578 What if I came to your smithy... 904 01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:10,081 and told you I didn't like your blacksmithing? 905 01:12:10,550 --> 01:12:13,349 You'd think it unreasonable, and rightly so. 906 01:12:13,820 --> 01:12:15,482 My business is governing. 907 01:12:16,089 --> 01:12:19,150 And I have the knack of it, as you have yours for your trade... 908 01:12:19,258 --> 01:12:20,624 by inheritance. 909 01:12:21,227 --> 01:12:24,459 My father was a king, and his father before him. 910 01:12:26,399 --> 01:12:29,995 My father died for Sweden, and I live for her. 911 01:12:31,104 --> 01:12:32,663 Now, my good people... 912 01:12:33,239 --> 01:12:34,867 go home to your work... 913 01:12:35,375 --> 01:12:37,071 and leave me to mine. 914 01:12:38,311 --> 01:12:40,212 My blessing on all of you. 915 01:12:41,614 --> 01:12:43,606 Long live the Queen! 916 01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,066 Too bad, Count Magnus. 917 01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:41,874 Here comes that Spaniard all alone! 918 01:13:57,123 --> 01:13:58,751 Kill the Spaniard! 919 01:14:06,499 --> 01:14:07,933 Fortunate coincidence. 920 01:14:08,234 --> 01:14:10,203 Can I be of help to Your Excellency? 921 01:14:10,336 --> 01:14:13,568 You might call off your hirelings and let me proceed to the embassy. 922 01:14:13,673 --> 01:14:16,302 I don't understand Your Excellency's insinuations... 923 01:14:16,409 --> 01:14:20,369 but I can take no chances of complicating our splendid relations with Spain. 924 01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:24,281 Therefore, I must insist on giving you my personal protection and escort. 925 01:14:24,383 --> 01:14:25,476 A horse. 926 01:14:26,119 --> 01:14:28,714 The protection offered a prisoner, Your Excellency? 927 01:14:28,821 --> 01:14:30,380 For your own safety. 928 01:14:38,531 --> 01:14:40,159 You go to the embassy, Pedro. 929 01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,272 You hate him. You have incited this riot against him. 930 01:14:51,377 --> 01:14:54,245 He is safe, Your Majesty, which but for my intervention... 931 01:14:54,347 --> 01:14:55,906 he might not have been. 932 01:14:56,616 --> 01:14:58,744 I ask you to bring him here to me at once. 933 01:14:58,851 --> 01:15:01,411 I should do so gladly, could I assume the risk. 934 01:15:01,521 --> 01:15:03,547 Feeling is running high in the city. 935 01:15:04,524 --> 01:15:06,959 There is only one safe course for Señor Antonio... 936 01:15:07,093 --> 01:15:09,426 that you sign the passport for his return. 937 01:15:10,463 --> 01:15:12,659 You are a jealous upstart, Magnus. 938 01:15:12,765 --> 01:15:14,734 You cannot endure that I love him. 939 01:15:14,867 --> 01:15:16,665 If I am an upstart, Your Majesty... 940 01:15:16,769 --> 01:15:19,500 I glory in it, for I owe my rise to your favors. 941 01:15:20,273 --> 01:15:23,675 And to be jealous of Antonio is a high form of patriotism. 942 01:15:28,915 --> 01:15:31,077 This is dangerous for you, Magnus. 943 01:15:31,851 --> 01:15:33,786 Do you realize how dangerous? 944 01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:35,286 Put me to death. 945 01:15:36,255 --> 01:15:38,520 If I die, he dies. 946 01:15:38,624 --> 01:15:40,559 My orders are in good hands. 947 01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,329 It is inevitable, Your Majesty. 948 01:15:43,496 --> 01:15:45,158 He or I. 949 01:16:05,384 --> 01:16:08,548 Prepare the passport for the Spanish envoy. 950 01:16:10,223 --> 01:16:11,885 My Lord Ambassador... 951 01:16:12,258 --> 01:16:15,695 this passport will assure your safe journey to the border. 952 01:16:16,896 --> 01:16:18,296 Count de la Gardie... 953 01:16:19,665 --> 01:16:22,430 you are responsible for His Excellency's safety. 954 01:16:29,342 --> 01:16:30,503 Permit me. 955 01:16:35,481 --> 01:16:36,915 Your Excellency... 956 01:16:37,350 --> 01:16:41,287 you will tell your master we're deeply sensible of the honor he has done to me. 957 01:16:42,521 --> 01:16:44,490 The ship Amaranta... 958 01:16:44,624 --> 01:16:47,389 awaits you at the harbor of Helsingborg. 959 01:16:49,228 --> 01:16:50,594 I wish you... 960 01:16:52,098 --> 01:16:54,033 a safe journey, My Lord. 961 01:17:32,104 --> 01:17:34,437 Can I be of service to Your Excellency? 962 01:17:36,809 --> 01:17:39,608 I have no recourse against you here, My Lord. 963 01:17:39,712 --> 01:17:41,806 I am an ambassador on foreign soil. 964 01:17:41,914 --> 01:17:45,112 But if you could do me the courtesy to meet me on neutral ground-- 965 01:17:45,217 --> 01:17:47,413 That can be arranged, Your Excellency. 966 01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:49,819 I shall provide convoy for you to the frontier. 967 01:17:49,922 --> 01:17:52,357 Beyond the frontier, I shall be at your service... 968 01:17:52,458 --> 01:17:54,154 to give you my personal escort. 969 01:17:55,027 --> 01:17:56,461 Thank you, My Lord. 970 01:18:05,404 --> 01:18:06,838 Your Excellency... 971 01:18:08,541 --> 01:18:10,203 from Her Majesty, the Queen. 972 01:18:59,792 --> 01:19:01,158 Who's there? 973 01:19:01,994 --> 01:19:03,792 It is I, Queen Christina. 974 01:19:04,063 --> 01:19:06,225 I, Axel Oxenstierna. 975 01:19:08,334 --> 01:19:09,859 What drives you here? 976 01:19:11,504 --> 01:19:13,598 I could not go to sleep. 977 01:19:15,608 --> 01:19:17,440 I, too, could not sleep. 978 01:19:22,448 --> 01:19:24,610 I remember when you led me... 979 01:19:25,051 --> 01:19:27,885 a child, up the steps of this throne. 980 01:19:28,888 --> 01:19:30,720 Your father and yourself... 981 01:19:31,157 --> 01:19:32,989 you two have been my life. 982 01:19:34,326 --> 01:19:37,160 And if now you fail me, I fail. 983 01:19:39,065 --> 01:19:41,500 That is too great a burden you put on me. 984 01:19:43,035 --> 01:19:45,869 I have grown up in a great man's shadow. 985 01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:48,704 All my life, I've been a symbol. 986 01:19:49,675 --> 01:19:52,611 A symbol is eternal, changeless... 987 01:19:53,112 --> 01:19:54,512 an abstraction. 988 01:19:55,815 --> 01:19:58,876 A human being is mortal and changeable... 989 01:20:00,286 --> 01:20:02,915 with desires and impulses... 990 01:20:03,823 --> 01:20:05,621 hopes and despairs. 991 01:20:06,859 --> 01:20:09,886 I'm tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. 992 01:20:10,596 --> 01:20:12,895 I long to be a human being. 993 01:20:14,834 --> 01:20:17,861 This longing I cannot suppress. 994 01:20:18,871 --> 01:20:20,271 And yet, you must. 995 01:20:20,673 --> 01:20:21,936 You will. 996 01:20:22,041 --> 01:20:25,341 His hand is upon you. The King's. 997 01:20:28,814 --> 01:20:32,512 I have always listened to you with awe, Oxenstierna. 998 01:20:33,185 --> 01:20:35,814 I respect no one in the kingdom as much as you. 999 01:20:36,655 --> 01:20:40,183 Yet, something in me cries out that this cannot be true... 1000 01:20:40,426 --> 01:20:42,657 that one must live for oneself. 1001 01:20:43,829 --> 01:20:45,627 After all, Chancellor... 1002 01:20:45,731 --> 01:20:48,291 one's own life is all one has. 1003 01:20:48,934 --> 01:20:50,630 Yes, Your Majesty... 1004 01:20:50,736 --> 01:20:52,705 that is all one has. 1005 01:20:53,072 --> 01:20:55,405 Therefore, you must give it up to your duty. 1006 01:20:56,208 --> 01:20:58,336 Greatness demands all. 1007 01:21:00,279 --> 01:21:02,339 Am I great, Chancellor? 1008 01:21:03,182 --> 01:21:05,981 I feel so little and helpless... 1009 01:21:06,685 --> 01:21:07,846 and futile. 1010 01:21:08,521 --> 01:21:11,116 Yes, Your Majesty, when you are alone. 1011 01:21:11,857 --> 01:21:13,155 But tomorrow... 1012 01:21:13,292 --> 01:21:16,694 when this great hall is filled with the pride of your realm... 1013 01:21:17,196 --> 01:21:18,892 you will meet the occasion. 1014 01:21:19,131 --> 01:21:20,963 You will do your duty. 1015 01:21:21,066 --> 01:21:22,967 You will marry Prince Charles. 1016 01:21:23,936 --> 01:21:24,960 Duty. 1017 01:21:28,841 --> 01:21:30,639 My heritage, Your Majesty... 1018 01:21:31,510 --> 01:21:32,739 and yours. 1019 01:22:10,549 --> 01:22:12,677 Her Majesty, the Queen. 1020 01:22:51,390 --> 01:22:52,722 My Lords... 1021 01:22:52,958 --> 01:22:55,723 we are to hear from Her Majesty's own lips today... 1022 01:22:55,828 --> 01:22:57,660 her decision on a matter... 1023 01:22:57,763 --> 01:23:00,130 that is near to all our hearts. 1024 01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:02,659 Your Majesty... 1025 01:23:02,801 --> 01:23:05,600 I have served your family for three generations. 1026 01:23:06,272 --> 01:23:08,366 My course is almost run. 1027 01:23:08,874 --> 01:23:10,809 Today fulfills my work. 1028 01:23:11,710 --> 01:23:15,909 In your great wisdom, you have put aside all thought of a foreign alliance... 1029 01:23:16,015 --> 01:23:17,381 however brilliant. 1030 01:23:17,750 --> 01:23:20,242 We are happy that the wishes of your people... 1031 01:23:20,386 --> 01:23:21,718 are your wishes. 1032 01:23:22,488 --> 01:23:24,821 Only those of Swedish blood... 1033 01:23:24,923 --> 01:23:27,256 should sit on the throne of Sweden. 1034 01:23:38,103 --> 01:23:40,504 The question of the succession has long been... 1035 01:23:40,606 --> 01:23:42,666 the subject of my earnest consideration. 1036 01:23:43,642 --> 01:23:45,577 I am come here today... 1037 01:23:45,711 --> 01:23:47,646 to tell you my decision. 1038 01:23:49,515 --> 01:23:51,040 There is among us one... 1039 01:23:51,183 --> 01:23:54,585 who has served the state faithfully in war and peace... 1040 01:23:55,654 --> 01:23:58,385 one who is also related to me by blood. 1041 01:23:59,558 --> 01:24:02,858 I speak of the Prince Palatine, Charles Gustavus. 1042 01:24:06,365 --> 01:24:08,994 I believe I shall be in agreement with you... 1043 01:24:09,168 --> 01:24:11,103 in saying that above all others... 1044 01:24:11,236 --> 01:24:14,331 he is the man best fitted for the government of this kingdom. 1045 01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:24,808 The Prince has done me the honor of asking my hand in marriage. 1046 01:24:26,685 --> 01:24:28,517 The Prince has my answer. 1047 01:24:30,155 --> 01:24:34,593 I have given him the reasons why I cannot accept this offer. 1048 01:24:41,266 --> 01:24:43,292 In the absence of an heir of my blood... 1049 01:24:44,103 --> 01:24:47,631 our constitution gives me the right to nominate for your approval... 1050 01:24:47,773 --> 01:24:48,934 my successor. 1051 01:24:50,476 --> 01:24:53,776 I believe that no one would gratify your wishes better... 1052 01:24:53,879 --> 01:24:55,745 than Prince Charles Gustavus. 1053 01:24:59,818 --> 01:25:01,753 I am resolved, therefore... 1054 01:25:02,888 --> 01:25:04,288 here and now... 1055 01:25:04,390 --> 01:25:06,382 to place in your hands... 1056 01:25:06,525 --> 01:25:09,757 my abdication from the throne of Sweden. 1057 01:25:11,930 --> 01:25:13,023 Abdication? 1058 01:25:14,299 --> 01:25:17,098 No, Your Majesty, no! 1059 01:25:27,146 --> 01:25:29,980 Lord God, Madam. What do you mean to do? 1060 01:25:31,083 --> 01:25:33,518 It troubles us to hear you speak... 1061 01:25:33,752 --> 01:25:36,312 of forsaking those that love you as we do. 1062 01:25:36,889 --> 01:25:38,983 Can you be better than you are? 1063 01:25:39,158 --> 01:25:41,389 You're Queen of all these countries. 1064 01:25:41,493 --> 01:25:44,986 And if you leave this large kingdom, where will you find another? 1065 01:25:45,230 --> 01:25:48,359 Continue, good Madam, as long as you live. 1066 01:25:49,435 --> 01:25:52,633 And we'll do all we can to help you bear the burden. 1067 01:25:52,771 --> 01:25:53,761 Yes! 1068 01:26:01,213 --> 01:26:03,239 I am grateful for your loyalty. 1069 01:26:05,451 --> 01:26:07,147 But there is a voice... 1070 01:26:08,387 --> 01:26:09,912 in our souls... 1071 01:26:10,355 --> 01:26:12,256 which tells us what to do. 1072 01:26:12,558 --> 01:26:14,049 And we obey. 1073 01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:16,661 I have no choice. 1074 01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,335 Here are the emblems of power... 1075 01:26:23,902 --> 01:26:27,464 which herewith, I present to you before God and mankind. 1076 01:26:36,048 --> 01:26:37,346 My Lord... 1077 01:26:39,351 --> 01:26:41,547 will you take the crown from my head? 1078 01:26:42,020 --> 01:26:44,251 No, Your Majesty, I will not do it. 1079 01:26:45,023 --> 01:26:48,926 I swore to your father always to keep that crown upon your head. 1080 01:26:49,228 --> 01:26:51,254 I'll have no part in this. 1081 01:26:51,964 --> 01:26:54,627 And nor I think is there any here that will. 1082 01:27:23,061 --> 01:27:24,154 Colonel. 1083 01:27:37,543 --> 01:27:40,342 And now, farewell. 1084 01:27:46,985 --> 01:27:49,045 I thank Almighty God... 1085 01:27:49,187 --> 01:27:51,884 who caused me to be born of a royal stock... 1086 01:27:52,891 --> 01:27:56,919 and raised me to be a queen of so large and mighty a kingdom. 1087 01:28:04,603 --> 01:28:07,266 I thank, too, those nobles... 1088 01:28:07,639 --> 01:28:10,370 who defended the state when I was a child. 1089 01:28:10,976 --> 01:28:12,672 And all of you... 1090 01:28:13,278 --> 01:28:16,510 for the fidelity and attachment you've shown me. 1091 01:28:26,425 --> 01:28:28,860 Let me look at you once more. 1092 01:28:41,506 --> 01:28:43,805 And so, let me remember you... 1093 01:28:44,543 --> 01:28:46,603 with love and loyalty... 1094 01:28:48,313 --> 01:28:50,339 till memory is no more. 1095 01:28:54,586 --> 01:28:55,918 God bless you. 1096 01:28:56,788 --> 01:28:57,812 Farewell. 1097 01:29:58,050 --> 01:29:59,279 She'll be on the boat. 1098 01:29:59,418 --> 01:30:01,978 If the tide is full and the wind is with us, we'll sail. 1099 01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:03,645 - And she'll go with us? - Yes. 1100 01:30:03,789 --> 01:30:06,224 - Where to? - The islands of the moon. 1101 01:30:06,692 --> 01:30:07,751 Where's that? 1102 01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:10,251 A place I've never been. 1103 01:30:10,395 --> 01:30:11,988 I hope it's warmer there. 1104 01:30:12,130 --> 01:30:13,359 Enchanting. 1105 01:30:13,865 --> 01:30:16,357 - What's the population? - Two. 1106 01:30:19,037 --> 01:30:21,063 But first, we have a little stop to make. 1107 01:30:21,206 --> 01:30:23,573 - Right across the border. - To change horses. 1108 01:30:24,209 --> 01:30:27,008 To rid the world of an extremely annoying person. 1109 01:30:27,212 --> 01:30:28,908 - Count Magnus? - Yes. 1110 01:30:30,348 --> 01:30:33,045 I'll leave Sweden a much more amiable country. 1111 01:31:01,646 --> 01:31:03,274 You wait here, Pedro. 1112 01:31:23,168 --> 01:31:26,036 Right over there, behind that clump of woods, Your Excellency. 1113 01:31:26,171 --> 01:31:27,833 At your pleasure, My Lord. 1114 01:31:40,685 --> 01:31:42,313 Goodbye, Sweden. 1115 01:31:46,491 --> 01:31:47,481 Aage. 1116 01:32:42,214 --> 01:32:43,682 Aage, where is the carriage? 1117 01:32:43,815 --> 01:32:46,512 Bad news, Your Majesty, there's been an accident. 1118 01:32:46,651 --> 01:32:48,085 The relief horses are lamed. 1119 01:32:48,220 --> 01:32:50,348 Impossible to get new ones till the morning. 1120 01:32:50,488 --> 01:32:52,389 Do we have to spend the night here? 1121 01:32:52,490 --> 01:32:53,514 Yes, Your Majesty. 1122 01:32:53,658 --> 01:32:56,457 It will do Your Majesty good to have a night's rest. 1123 01:32:56,595 --> 01:32:57,619 Rest. 1124 01:33:20,185 --> 01:33:21,312 Are you ready to sail? 1125 01:33:21,453 --> 01:33:23,854 Yes, Your Majesty, the boat is right here. 1126 01:33:29,527 --> 01:33:31,257 - Captain. - Your Majesty. 1127 01:33:31,396 --> 01:33:32,796 I humbly greet you. 1128 01:33:50,015 --> 01:33:51,210 Antonio. 1129 01:33:53,084 --> 01:33:54,177 What has happened? 1130 01:33:54,319 --> 01:33:56,117 It was a duel, Your Majesty. 1131 01:33:56,788 --> 01:33:58,450 - Count Magnus? - Yes. 1132 01:34:02,294 --> 01:34:04,263 Why do you stand here like this? 1133 01:34:13,605 --> 01:34:16,439 - Christina. - Are you in pain? 1134 01:34:16,608 --> 01:34:19,100 No. Not now. 1135 01:34:23,782 --> 01:34:26,047 Have you said goodbye to your country? 1136 01:34:26,651 --> 01:34:29,621 Yes, to everything but you. 1137 01:34:32,958 --> 01:34:35,120 How sweet your eyes are. 1138 01:34:35,827 --> 01:34:37,318 You mustn't talk. 1139 01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:44,099 When the wind is with us, we sail. 1140 01:34:44,402 --> 01:34:45,529 Yes. 1141 01:34:46,571 --> 01:34:47,698 Spain. 1142 01:34:49,574 --> 01:34:52,908 My home is on a white cliff overlooking the sea. 1143 01:34:55,981 --> 01:34:58,644 - You'll never leave me, will you? - No, never. 1144 01:35:01,619 --> 01:35:03,087 Your Majesty. 1145 01:35:04,656 --> 01:35:06,124 You must rest. 1146 01:35:06,992 --> 01:35:08,016 Rest. 1147 01:35:27,212 --> 01:35:28,373 Antonio? 1148 01:36:52,564 --> 01:36:55,329 Do you still want to sail, Your Majesty? 1149 01:36:59,070 --> 01:37:02,097 The house on the cliff. 1150 01:37:05,977 --> 01:37:08,708 Yes, Aage, we will sail. 1151 01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:10,371 I'll tell the Captain. 1152 01:37:10,482 --> 01:37:13,077 The tide is full and the wind is with us. 1153 01:37:18,022 --> 01:37:19,820 The wind is with us. 1154 01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:30,658 All hands on deck. 1155 01:37:33,171 --> 01:37:34,799 Let the gangway fall. 83041