Mid East Film Festival: 2004: Introduction

The Queen by Steven Frears (UK)

Country:	UK – France - Italy
Year:	2006
	97 mins / 35mm / Colour / English
Director:	Stephen Frears
Screenplay:	Peter Morgan
Director of photography:	Affonso Beato
Sound:	Peter Lindsay
Editor:	Lucia Zucchetti
Producers:	François Ivernel, Cameron Mccracken, Scott Rudin
Cast:	Helen Mirren / Michael Sheen / Alex Jennings / James Cromwell /Roger Allam / Sylvia Syms / Helen McCrory / Tim McMullan

When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a shocked and disbelieved British public, her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy.

For Tony Blair, the popular and newly elected Prime Minister, the people's need for reassurance and support from their leaders is palpable.

As the unprecedented outpouring of emotion grows ever stronger, Blair must find a way to reconnect the Queen with the British public.


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