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| The Lion in Winter | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Written by | James Goldman |
| Produced by | Patrick Stewart Dyson Lovell |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Glenn Close Andrew Howard John Light Rafe Spall |
| Cinematography | Sergei Kozlov |
| Edited by | Henry Richardson |
| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Distributed by | Showtime Networks Hallmark Entertainment |
| Release dates |  December 26, 2003  May 23, 2004 |
| Running time | 167 min. |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
The Lion in Winter is a 2003 made-for-television remake of the 1968 film.
A television production of The Lion in Winter was first shown on 26 December 2003 in the U.K.. It starred Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close, and was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
Andrew Howard, John Light, and Rafe Spall played the warring brothers. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the king of France and Yuliya Vysotskaya, his sister and Henry's mistress, Princess Alais.
Cast
- Patrick Stewart as King Henry II
- Glenn Close as Queen Eleanor
- Andrew Howard as Richard the Lionheart
- John Light as Geoffrey
- Rafe Spall as John
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Philip II
- Yuliya Vysotskaya as Alais
- Clive Wood as Captain William Marshall
Goofs
- Continuity: When Richard holds the knife out to Eleanor in the dungeon, the knife reverses orientation and his grip on the handle changes between shots.
- Anachronisms: Eleanor refers to syphilis in one of her speeches, an impossibility in 1183 England. Syphilis was not named such until 1530 by Hieronymus Fracastorius. Regardless of whether Europe even had the disease prior to 1200, it could not have been known by that name to the Queen.
- Revealing mistakes: Henry breaks the ice on his water basin in order to wash, but the room is warm enough that no one's breath frosts the air.