The Abdication
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
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Genre: History
Director: Anthony Harvey, Connie Willis, David Munro
Actors: Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden, Harold Goldblatt, Kathleen Byron, Lewis Fiander, Liv Ullmann, Michael Dunn, Paul Rogers, Peter Finch, Tony Steedman
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