The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria (2009)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2009-03-04

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

GK Films, Mandate International, Sikelia Productions

Genre

Drama, History, Romance

Budget

$35 000 000

Revenue

$27 409 889

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Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

Actors

Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann, Mark Strong, Jesper Christensen, Harriet Walter, Jeanette Hain
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Scenario

Julian Fellowes

Producer

Martin Scorsese, Graham King, Tim Headington, Sarah Ferguson

Operator

Hagen Bogdanski

Composer

Ilan Eshkeri

Artist

Audition

Susie Figgis

Editing

Jill Bilcock, Matt Garner
All team (24)

• Emily Blunt's luxurious dresses were insured for ten thousand British pounds each.
• The producer Sarah Ferguson's daughter, Princess Beatrice of York, received a small role in the film as one of the ladies-in-waiting to the Queen. In reality, Beatrice is the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
• Many interior scenes were filmed at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. The bed in which newlyweds Victoria and Albert slept during their honeymoon was once slept in by Queen Victoria herself, who stayed at the castle in 1843. The bedroom itself is so small that all the filming equipment had to be placed and set up outside the windows.
• The seaside scenes were filmed at the same Belvoir Castle, despite it being located more than 100 kilometers from the coast. The coastal sand was actually scattered on the castle terrace, and the surrounding walls were replaced with the sea using computer graphics.
• The loose bonnet that Victoria wore in the garden had previously been a costume item in the films “Pride & Prejudice” (2005), “Northanger Abbey” (2007) and “Becoming Jane” (2007).
• The dress worn by Queen Victoria in the film during her first meeting with the council is an exact replica of the dress she actually wore at the time. The dress itself has survived to this day in a British museum collection, however, the original black color has faded to brown over the years due to the lack of colorfastness of the dyes used at the time.