Margrete den første (2021)

Directors

Charlotte Sieling

Cast

Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro, Bjørn Floberg, Magnus Krepper, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Agnes Rase, Simon J. Berger, Linus James Nilsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Annika Hallin, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, Richard Sammel, Paul Blackthorne

The story

The film opens in 1361 with the infant Princess Margrete of Denmark witnessing the bloodshed of her father King Valdemar IV's victory at the Battle of Visby. 41 years later in 1402, Margrete, now queen regnant, rides across Norway's Hardangervidda plateau with her retinue while a caption relates that she has "gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a union which she single-handedly rules through her adopted son King Erik. For the first time in centuries, there is peace between the Nordic countries." Arriving at a fjord to meet all the leading Nordic magnates, she tells them the Kalmar Union has brought a decade of peace but now needs the…

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