Gender-bending Queen Christina of Sweden has always resisted marriage, but an encounter with a Spanish envoy forces her to weigh passion against duty to the throne. Packed with queer-coded sequences still possible in the Pre-Code-era, this lavish costume drama finds Greta Garbo at her most luminous and iconic.

Brett Peters, Curator at the American Swedish Historical Museum will join us for a post-screening conversation. This screening is presented in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition From Taste to Tech: 100 Years of Nordic Innovation & Impact.