Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003)

Directors

Joe Wright

Cast

Alice Patten, Andrew Woodall, Anne-Marie Duff, Charlie Creed-Miles, Christian Coulson, Cyrille Thouvenin, Diana Rigg, Dorian Lough, Eddie Marsan, Emma Pierson, Garry Cooper, Helen McCrory, Ian McDiarmid, Jochum ten Haaf, Martin Freeman, Martin Turner, Minja Filipovic, Mélanie Thierry, Perkins Lyautey, Peter Wight, Predrag Bjelac, Richard Rowlands, Robert East, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Ryan Nelson, Sean Biggerstaff, Shaun Dingwall, Shirley Henderson, Simon Treves, Simon Woods

The story

The film covers the life of Charles II – beginning just before his Restoration to the throne in 1660. He was deeply traumatised by the execution of his father in 1649, after the former's defeat in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; it begins, however, with his penurious exile in Antwerp in 1658. The film's emphasis is on his court, and his conflicts with Parliament – essentially the same issues which led to the Civil War between his father Charles I and the House of Commons, the politics of who would succeed him – and his relationships with his family, his mistresses and his illegitimate son James, Duke of Monmouth.

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