Nikolaj Arcel directs this Academy Award-nominated Danish period drama based on a novel by Bodil Steensen-Leth. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Johann Friedrich Struensee, a bright young doctor who becomes personal physician to the psychologically unstable King Frederik of Denmark (William J�hnk Nielsen). Struensee's ambitions know no bounds; as well as winning the affections of the young Queen Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), he becomes increasingly involved in the King's state affairs, using his position to forward the enlightenment, implementing freedom of the press and of expression, abolishing torture and serfdom, reforming the school system and curtailing the privileges of the aristocracy.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager
Producer: Sisse Graum Jorgensen
Producer: Louise Vesth
Writer: Rasmus Heisterberg
Writer: Nikolaj Arcel
Music: Gabriel Yared
Cinematographer: Rasmus Videbæk
Actor: Mads Mikkelsen
Actor: David Dencik
Actor: Alicia Vikander
Actor: Søren Malling
Actor: Trine Dyrholm
Actor: William Jøhnk Nielsen
Actor: Cyron Bjorn Melville
Actor: Gabriel Gabrio
Actor: Laura Bro
Actor: Rosalinde Mynster
Actor: Bent Mejding
Actor: Mikkel Folsgaard
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Music: Cyrille Aufort