Denmark in the year 1768. The court is of the opinion that King Christian VII is mad and engages Johann Friedrich Struensee as his personal physician. Struensee now has the opportunity to bring the ideas of the Enlightenment about personal freedom and equality into practice. Soon he is also given the power to issue new laws and implement a revolution with the aim of changing the entire society. At the same time he initiates an intense love affair with the Queen, Caroline Mathilde; a love marked by their shared dream of a new era. However, the dissatisfaction of the nobility grows with the illegitimate child in the queen’s belly and people are using their acquired freedom of speech to turn against the new ruler. Liväkarens Besök is a true story about forbidden love and the conflict between the old and the new era. It is a phenomenal dramatization of Per Olov Enquist’s masterpiece.
