<P> The King 's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler . Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who , to cope with a stammer , sees Lionel Logue , an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush . The men become friends as they work together , and after his brother abdicates the throne , the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain 's declaration of war on Germany in 1939 . </P>
<P> The King 's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler . Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who , to cope with a stammer , sees Lionel Logue , an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush . The men become friends as they work together , and after his brother abdicates the throne , the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain 's declaration of war on Germany in 1939 . </P>
when does the king 's speech take place
when does the king 's speech take place
1939
1939