
Submission(2018)
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.


“Secrets lie between the lines”
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Glenn Close
Joan Castleman

Jonathan Pryce
Joe Castleman

Christian Slater
Nathaniel Bone

Max Irons
David Castleman

Harry Lloyd
Young Joe

Annie Starke
Young Joan

Elizabeth McGovern
Elaine Mozell

Johan Widerberg
Walter Bark

Karin Franz Körlof
Linnea

Richard Cordery
Hal Bowman
The Wife is a drama film released in 2017 exploring themes of infidelity, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, professor, nobel prize, stockholm, sweden. Directed by Björn Runge, it stars Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater. A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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