The Young Victoria

(2009)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 1,081 votes

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Year: 2009

Runtime: 100 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Жан-Марк Валле

Cast: Эмили Блант, Руперт Френд, Пол Беттани, Миранда Ричардсон, Джим Бродбент, Томас Кречман, Марк Стронг, Йеспер Кристенсен, Харриет Уолтер, Жанетт Хайн

Plot

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort, Conroy, since childhood, teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IV's rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives, but, following her accession at age eighteen, finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance on trusty Prime Minister Melbourne. Victoria is impressed by Albert's philanthropy, which is akin to her own desire to help her subjects. However, her loyalty to Melbourne, perceived as a self-seeker, almost causes a constitutional crisis, and it is Albert who helps restore her self-confidence. She proposes and they marry, Albert proving himself not only a devoted spouse, prepared to take an assassin's bullet for her, but also an agent of much-needed reform, finally endorsed by an admiring Melbourne.