Mary Queen of Scots (2013 film)

Mary Queen of Scots
Film poster
Directed byThomas Imbach
Screenplay byThomas Imbach
Based onMaria Stuart
1935 biography
by Stefan Zweig
Produced byAndrea Staka
Thomas Imbach
Emilie Blezat
StarringCamille Rutherford
CinematographyRainer Klausmann
Edited byTom La Belle
Music bySofia Gubaidulina
Distributed byPathé
Release date
  • 14 August 2013 (2013-08-14) (Locarno)
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguagesEnglish
French

Mary Queen of Scots is a 2013 Swiss period drama directed and co-written by Thomas Imbach. It is his first film in the English and French languages, starring the bilingual French actress Camille Rutherford. The film portrays the inner life of Mary, the Queen of Scotland. The film is based on the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig's 1935 biography, Mary Stuart, a long-term bestseller in Germany and France but out of print in the UK and the US for decades until 2010. The film was first screened at the 2013 International Film Festival Locarno and was later shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.