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PATHÉ FILMS PRESENTS MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AN OKOFILM PRODUCTION A THOMAS IMBACH FILM BASED ON «MARIA STUART» BY STEFAN ZWEIG WITHCAMILLE RUTHERFORD SEAN BIGGERSTAFF ANEURIN BARNARD EDWARD HOGG MEHDI DEHBI TONY CURRAN BRUNO TODESCHINI ROXANE DURAN AND JOANA PREISSCASTING BY MARIE DE LAUBIER LISA OLAH COSTUME DESIGNER RUDOLF JOST SCRIPT EDITOR CATHERINE SCHELBERT MUSIC BY SOFIA GUBAIDULINA FILM EDITOR TOM LA BELLE PARTNER IN CRIME JÜRG HASSLER SOUND DESIGN PETER BRÄKERCINEMATOGRAPHER RAINER KLAUSMANN S.C.S. PRODUCTION DESIGNER GERALD DAMOVSKY MAKE UP AND HAIR RONALD FAHM MARTINE FELBER LINE PRODUCERS FLORIAN NUSSBAUMER UDO HAPPEL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ÉMILIE BLÉZAT SIBYLLE SARAH IMBACHIN CO-PRODUCTION WITH SRF SWISS RADIO AND TELEVISION SRG SSR ARTE BACHIM FILM TAKAFILM SCIAPODE PRODUCED BY ANDREA ŠTAKA AND THOMAS IMBACH WRITTEN BY THOMAS IMBACH ANDREA ŠTAKA EDUARD HABSBURGDIRECTED BY THOMAS IMBACH WITH THE SUPPORT OF BUNDESAMT FÜR KULTUR ZÜRCHER FILMSTIFTUNG SUISSIMAGE MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION KANTONE LUZERN URI FILM LOCATION RIVIERA YVERDON-LES-BAINS FOCAL: STAGE POOL© 2013 OKOFILM, SRF, ARTE, THOMAS IMBACH

Picture Tree International GmbH | Zur Börse 12 | 10247 Berlin | GermanyPhone +49 (0) 30 4208 248 - 0 | Email pti@picturetree-international.comwww. picturetree-international.comMary Queen of ScotsDIRECTORThomas ImbachCASTDIRECTORPRODUCTIONGENRELENGTHCOUNTRYLANGUAGECamille RutherfordMehdi DehbiSean BiggerstaffAneurin BarnardThomas ImbachOkofilm ProductionsDrama120 minSwitzerlandEnglish, FrenchThomas Imbach is one oft hemost exciting Swiss directors.He has been shifting boundariesof genres in his fiction featuresand documentaries, includingWELL DONE, HAPPINESS ISA WARM GUN, LENZ, I WASA SWISS BANKER. His latest film, MARY QUEEN OFSCOTS, premiered 2013 in Locarno and Toronto.A QUEEN WHO LOST THREE KINGDOMS – A WIFE WHO LOST THREE HUSBANDS –A WOMAN WHO LOST HER HEADAll rights reserved / Credits not contractual / Different territoriesMary Queen of Scots spends her childhood in France and is meant to become also Queen of France. However, her ailing husbanddies and the young widow returns alone to Scotland, a country devastated by war. Elizabeth has just become Queen of England,for Mary she is like a twin sister to whom she can open her heart. Mary weds again and gives birth to an heir to the throne . Hersecond husband, Lord Darnley, proves to be a weakling. When Mary finds the love of her life, the Earl of Bothwell, she has Darnleymurdered and marries Bothwell. Horrified by this deed and the blind passion that motivated it, both the nobles and the people ofScotland spurn her. To avert a bloody battle, Mary is compelled to give up her beloved Bothwell. In desperate straits, she turns toElizabeth for help. In response, the Queen of England imprisons her. After 19 years spent in a golden cage, Mary finds release atlast: Elizabeth sends her to the block.“Mary Queen of Scots features an appealing reworking of familiarcontents: While in many ways a traditional period drama, itstime-shifting structure and dreamlike narration manages tocritique the very strictures of the genre.”INDIEWIRE, Eric Kohn“MARY Queen of Scots rises well above its roots as a historicaldrama, for it is an extremely well-directed and imaginativelyconceived piece of filmmaking. It is amongst the most thrillingtreatments of a historical subject I have ever seen.”TIFF, Piers Handling