SF Studios releases teaser trailer for Charlotte Sieling’s new epic drama Margrete – Queen of the North
SF Studios releases the teaser trailer and teaser poster for the highly anticipated large-scale period drama, Margrete – Queen of the North. The film stars Trine Dyrholm in the lead as Margrete the First. Margrete is considered the most powerful regent in Scandinavian history, as she gathered the three Nordic countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peaceful and visionary union. The film is produced by SF Studios with producers Birgitte Skov and Lars Bredo Rahbek and directed by internationally acclaimed director Charlotte Sieling. The film is expected to premiere in cinemas in fall 2021.
Margrete – Queen of the North is the riveting story of a woman who succeeds where men have failed. She creates something extraordinarily grand with enormous consequences to her personal life. She is an amazing woman, ahead of her time, who sacrifices herself completely for her vision, for her countries.
This is the first time the story of Margrete the First takes the leap to the big screen and furthermore at an unusually high budget level for Scandinavia. This short glimpse of the film is from a key scene, when a shocking rumour reaches the castle and puts Margrete in an impossible dilemma threatening to tear everything she has worked for apart.
Watch the teaser trailer here: https://youtu.be/mDR1bZ5gsQI
Producers Birgitte Skov and Lars Bredo Rahbek state: “We are immensely proud soon to be able to present Charlotte Sieling’s Margrete – Queen of the North. We think we are breaking new ground. A grand period movie helmed by a female director with such high ambitions is a rarity in Scandinavian film. Let’s hope this is a new direction and the shape of things to come.”
Director Charlotte Sieling has a long career as one of the most acclaimed Danish directors on TV-series as Unit One (2002), The Killing (2009), The Bridge (2011), Those Who Kill (2014) and not least the US blockbuster series Homeland (2014). Most recently, she directed HBO’s horror series Lovecraft Country (2020). With Margrete – Queen of the North, Charlotte Sieling will bring one of the greatest stories from the Nordics to the big screen. The story of one of the most powerful women in European history.
Synopsis
The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union, which she singlehandedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an emerging European power but a breathtaking conspiracy is under way that can tear Margrete and all she believes in apart.
Margrete – Queen of the North stars Trine Dyrholm (Queen of Hearts, 2019), Søren Malling (The Investigation, 2020), Morten Hee Andersen (Ride Upon The Storm, 2018), Jakob Oftebro (Kon-tiki, 2012), Bjørn Floberg (Out Stealing Horses, 2019), Magnus Krepper (Queen of Hearts, 2019), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair, 2012), Agnes Rase (Midsommar, 2019), Annika Hallin (The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, 2011), Simon J. Berger (Exit, 2019), Richard Sammel (Inglourious Basterds, 2009) and Paul Blackthorne (Arrow, 2020).
Charlotte Sieling co-wrote the script with Jesper Fink (Before The Frost, 2018) and Maya Ilsøe (The Legacy, 2017). Rasmus Videbæk (A Royal Affair, 2012) is director of photography, while Søren Schwarzberg (Before The Frost, 2018) is production designer and Manon Rasmussen (Melancholia, 2011) is costume designer. AnnaCarin Lock is makeup and hair designer (Quick, 2019), Anja Philip is casting director (Wildland, 2020), Sverrir Kristjánsson is editor (The Man, 2017), Rune Palving is sound designer (The Man, 2017), Thomas Dyg is VFX designer (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, 2011) and Jon Ekstrand is composer (Queen of Hearts, 2019).
Margrete – Queen of the North is produced by SF Studios with producers Birgitte Skov and Lars Bredo Rahbek and co-producer Jon Nohrstedt in co-production with Filmkameratene (Norway), Truenorth (Iceland), Sirena Film (Czech Republic) and Film i Väst (Sweden), with support from the Danish Film Institute, TV 2 DANMARK (Denmark), Swedish Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute, Icelandic Film Centre, Nordic Film & TV Fund, Eurimages, Czech Film Fund, Polish Film Institute, Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik's Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, The Carlsberg Foundation, The A.P. Moller Foundation and Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
SF Studios distributes the film in the Nordics. REinvent Studios handles international sales.
The film is expected to release locally in Q3 2021.
For more information, please contact:
Malin Strihagen, Vice President Brand & Communications, SF Studios, +46 70 780 39 35
About SF Studios
SF Studios, established in 1919, is one of the world’s oldest film companies. Today SF Studios is the leading film studio in the Nordic region with its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden and offices in Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki and London. The company is producing and distributing feature films and TV series as well as providing the digital services SF Anytime and SF Kids. SF Studios is part of the leading Nordic media company Bonnier.
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