Zentropa´s A ROYAL AFFAIR combines a royal romance with a good old fashioned scandal. The only thing we love more than a royal romance is a good scandal - which is why we were especially excited to hear about Nikolaj Arce´s A ROYAL AFFAIR, which combines both.
The Zentropa-produced film, set in 18th-century Denmark, centres on King Christian VII´s German physician Johann Struensee (played by Mads Mikkelsen), who had a passionate affair with the queen, fathering her child (now that would have made The King´s Speech more interesting).
“It´s the most romantic and dramatic film I´ve ever done,” Mikkelsen tells us from the set in the Czech Republic, where shooting has just wrapped, before he flies into Cannes to help TrustNordisk promote the film.
“It´s the biggest and most spectacular love story in the history of Denmark,” says the film´s executive producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen.
Of course if it happened today, we wouldn´t know about it because Struensee would have taken out a superinjunction.