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Royal Blood

  • Original title Blått Blod
  • Season 1
  • Director Erik Richter Strand
  • Format Series
  • Genre Drama
  • Production Company Miso Film
  • Producer Kristin Ulseth, Vegard Stenberg Eriksen
  • Screenplay Nanna Westh, Erik Richter Strand, Monica Boracco
  • Duration 6 x 45 min
  • Broadcaster TV2 Norway, TV4 Sweden, TV2 Denmark
  • Creator Monica Boracco, Erik Richter Strand, Nanna Westh, Katarina Launing
  • Sales agent Fremantle

Royal Blood is a bold historical drama set in the turbulent years leading up to 1814, when Norway breaks free from centuries of Danish rule and is thrust into a new union with Sweden. As Europe is torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars, the great powers of France, Britain and Russia redraw the map of the continent, threatening the sovereignty of the Scandinavian kingdoms.

Across the royal courts of Denmark and Sweden, and within Norway’s rising political elite, we follow men and women born into privilege – and confined by it: a Danish crown prince desperate to prove his strength as his authority slips away, a Swedish royal strategist who topples a young king to secure her dynasty, and a young Norwegian noble willing to risk everything to carve out a nation of his own.

Behind gilded palace walls, strategy and desire are inseperable. Under mounting pressure, loyalty, ambition, love and duty collide, and a single miscalculation can cost a throne, a life or a country. Royal Blood is an intimate yet epic portrait of dynasties in crisis, and of how Norway, Sweden and Denmark became irrevocably bound together in the birth of a new political order, where power is no longer inherited without question, but fought for, negotiated and ultimately reshaped in the name of democracy. 

Grants to Royal Blood

Allocations
Blått Blod
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Date of decision: Apr 22, 2026 Applicant: Miso Film Norge as Awarded: NOK 14,550,000 Director: Erik Richter Strand Producer: Kristin Ulseth, Are Heidenstrøm Manus: Erik Richter Strand, Nanna Westh, Monica Boracco Tilskuddsområde: The Norwegian Film Production Incentive Grant scheme: The Norwegian Film Production Incentive
Blått Blod
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Date of decision: Feb 5, 2025 Applicant: Miso Film Norge as Awarded: NOK 350,000 Producer: Kristin Ulseth, Are Heidenstrøm Manus: Stephen Uhlander, Emma Broström
Blått Blod
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Date of decision: Nov 28, 2024 Applicant: Miso Film Norge as Awarded: NOK 500,000 Producer: Are Heidenstrøm, Kristin Ulseth Manus: Stephen Uhlander, Emma Broström
Karl Johan - Republikaneren som ble konge
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Date of decision: Dec 18, 2023 Applicant: LAUNINGS REGIMASKIN Awarded: NOK 250,000
Karl Johan - Republikaneren som ble konge
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Date of decision: Mar 28, 2023 Applicant: LAUNINGS REGIMASKIN Awarded: NOK 250,000 Manus: KATARINA HELENA LAUNING