The Lion in Winter (2003 film)

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The Lion in Winter
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
Produced by Patrick Stewart
Dyson Lovell
Written by James Goldman
Starring Patrick Stewart
Glenn Close
Andrew Howard
John Light
Rafe Spall
Music by Richard Hartley
Cinematography Sergei Kozlov
Editing by Henry Richardson
Distributed by Showtime Networks
Hallmark Entertainment
Release date(s) Flag of the United Kingdom
December 26, 2003
Flag of the United States
May 23, 2004
Running time 167 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Preceded by The Lion in Winter (1968)
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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.

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  • 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.

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