Queen Christina

1:15:46

Who's there?

1:15:48

It is I, Queen Christina.

1:15:50

I, Axel Oxenstierna.

1:15:54

What drives you here?

1:15:57

I could not go to sleep.

1:16:01

I, too, could not sleep.

1:16:08

I remember when you led me...

1:16:10

a child, up the steps of this throne.

1:16:14

Your father and yourself...

1:16:16

you two have been my life.

1:16:19

And if now you fail me, I fail.

1:16:24

That is too great a burden you put on me.

1:16:27

I have grown up in a great man's shadow.

1:16:31

All my life, I've been a symbol.

1:16:34

A symbol is eternal, changeless...

1:16:37

an abstraction.

1:16:40

A human being is mortal and changeable...

1:16:44

with desires and impulses...

1:16:47

hopes and despairs.

1:16:50

I'm tired of being a symbol, Chancellor.

1:16:54

I long to be a human being.

1:16:58

This longing I cannot suppress.