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PATHÉ FILMS PRESENTS MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AN OKOFILM PRODUCTION A THOMAS IMBACH FILM BASED ON «MARIA STUART» BY STEFAN ZWEIG WITH
CAMILLE RUTHERFORD SEAN BIGGERSTAFF ANEURIN BARNARD EDWARD HOGG MEHDI DEHBI TONY CURRAN BRUNO TODESCHINI ROXANE DURAN AND JOANA PREISS
CASTING BY MARIE DE LAUBIER LISA OLAH COSTUME DESIGNER RUDOLF JOST SCRIPT EDITOR CATHERINE SCHELBERT MUSIC BY SOFIA GUBAIDULINA FILM EDITOR TOM LA BELLE PARTNER IN CRIME JÜRG HASSLER SOUND DESIGN
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IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH SRF SWISS RADIO AND TELEVISION
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Mary Queen of Scots
DIRECTOR
Thomas Imbach
CAST Thomas Imbach is one oft he
most exciting Swiss directors.
He has been shifting boundaries
of genres in his fiction features
and documentaries, including
WELL DONE, HAPPINESS IS
A WARM GUN, LENZ, I WAS
A SWISS BANKER. His latest film, MARY QUEEN OF
SCOTS, premiered 2013 in Locarno and Toronto.
DIRECTOR PRODUCTION
GENRE LENGTH
COUNTRY
LANGUAGE Camille Rutherford
Mehdi Dehbi
Sean Biggerstaff
Aneurin Barnard
Thomas Imbach
Okofilm Productions
Drama
120 min
Switzerland
English, French
All rights reserved / Credits not contractual / Different territories
A QUEEN WHO LOST THREE KINGDOMS – A WIFE WHO LOST THREE HUSBANDS –
A WOMAN WHO LOST HER HEAD
Mary Queen of Scots spends her childhood in France and is meant to become also Queen of France. However, her ailing husband
dies and the young widow returns alone to Scotland, a country devastated by war. Elizabeth has just become Queen of England,
for Mary she is like a twin sister to whom she can open her heart. Mary weds again and gives birth to an heir to the throne . Her
second husband, Lord Darnley, proves to be a weakling. When Mary finds the love of her life, the Earl of Bothwell, she has Darnley
murdered and marries Bothwell. Horrified by this deed and the blind passion that motivated it, both the nobles and the people of
Scotland spurn her. To avert a bloody battle, Mary is compelled to give up her beloved Bothwell. In desperate straits, she turns to
Elizabeth for help. In response, the Queen of England imprisons her. After 19 years spent in a golden cage, Mary finds release at
last: Elizabeth sends her to the block.
“Mary Queen of Scots features an appealing reworking of familiar
contents: While in many ways a traditional period drama, its
time-shifting structure and dreamlike narration manages to
critique the very strictures of the genre.” INDIEWIRE, Eric Kohn
“MARY Queen of Scots rises well above its roots as a historical
drama, for it is an extremely well-directed and imaginatively
conceived piece of filmmaking. It is amongst the most thrilling
treatments of a historical subject I have ever seen.” TIFF, Piers Handling