Margrete: Queen of the North (2021) on Netflix
1402. Queen Margrete rules Denmark, Norway and Sweden through her adopted son Erik and plans his marriage to an English princess. A man claims to be her dead son.
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Plot summary
A decade of peace holds among the Nordic countries, which Margrete has gathered into one union and rules through her adopted son Erik. At a meeting with the leading magnates she asks for troops for a Union army and announces Erik's betrothal to Philippa, a daughter of King Henry IV of England; an alliance with England is meant to deter attacks from the German order that governs Prussia and has taken Gotland. At Kalmar Castle, Asle Jonsson, who leads the Norwegian council, tells her that in Graudenz he saw a man he takes to be Oluf, her son, dead these fifteen years. She has the man brought to Kalmar for questioning, though his claim threatens Erik's standing and the English marriage being negotiated by Sir William Bourcier.
Cast
- Linus Nilssonas Roar
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Production was badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic: the crew completed only 10 days of filming in Prague before stopping on 12 March 2020, and producers sought an extra 8.5 million DKK from Film i Väst, the Queen Margrethe & Prince Henrik Foundation, the A.P. Møller Fund, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Augustinus Fund to save the film.
- The film is a fictionalised account of the 'False Oluf', an impostor who in 1402 claimed to be the deceased King Olaf II/Olav IV of Denmark and Norway, son of Margrete I.
- Margrete: Queen of the North was one of the largest productions in Danish cinema history, with the largest budget ever for a Danish-language feature film.
- The film had a budget of about 73 million Danish kroner, and the Danish Film Institute gave 20 million DKK, the largest single grant in production aid it has ever made.
