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Nicholas and Alexandra
The Last Dance of the Romanovs.
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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CinemaSerf
Oct 15, 2025 · via TMDB
To be fair to Sam Spiegel, he didn’t hold the purse strings too tightly on this sumptuous dramatisation of the lives of Czar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman) and it looks almost as stunning as “Doctor Zhivago” (1965). Sadly, though, that look doesn’t translate into anything very compelling to watch as neither lead actor really has what it takes to enliven either their roles or the tumultuous events at this fascinatingly turbulent time in European history. Luck isn’t exactly on the Romanov side right from the start when their only son Alexis is born with haemophilia, the Czarina finds herself under the sinister influence of Rasputin (the reliably hammy Tom Baker) and he finds his nation involved - on the losing side - in a war against Japan in Korea and with a domestic population no longer prepared to automatically accept the divine right of the emperor. What now ensues uses some large-scale, grand, cinematography intertwined with the excellent attention paid to the costume and production designs to depict historical events but I found this really more a victory for style over substance. Sir Larry Olivier can just about carry of his role as his sagely and increasingly frustrated premier Count Witte and Irene Worth always did possess a certain imperiousness that works well here as the Dowager Empress but I struggled with Harry Andrews, Timothy West and especially with a Jack Hawkins who looked like he had bathed in aspic before attaching a moustache he borrowed from a Marx brother. It comes alive a little with half an hour to go as a certain inevitable mortality impacts on this Imperial family, but I still felt it a passionless and rather sterile depiction of the hypocrisies and double standards that prevailed in a country where a palace and a ghetto existed side by side and where religious mysticism and the positively Machiavellian nature of the political machinations were rife. An opportunity missed, I would say, that really could have benefited from casting that didn’t worry so much about actual resemblance but more on substantive characterisation and perhaps focussed on a shorter, more concentrated, timeframe.
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Michael Jayston
Nicholas
Janet Suzman
Alexandra
Roderic Noble
Alexis
Ania Marson
Olga
Lynne Frederick
Tatiana
Candace Glendenning
Marie
Harry Andrews
Grand Duke Nicholas (Nikolasha)
Irene Worth
The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna
Tom Baker
Rasputin
Jack Hawkins
Count Fredericks
Timothy West
Dr. Botkin
Jean-Claude Drouot
Gilliard
John Hallam
Nagorny
Guy Rolfe
Dr. Fedorov
John Wood
Col. Kobylinsky
Laurence Olivier
Count Witte
Eric Porter
Stolypin
Michael Redgrave
Sazonov
Maurice Denham
Kokovtsov
Ralph Truman
Rodzianko
John McEnery
Kerensky
Michael Bryant
Lenin
Vivian Pickles
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Brian Cox
Trotsky
James Hazeldine
Stalin
Stephen Greif
Martov
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Ian Holm
Yakovlev
Alan Webb
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Leon Lissek
Avadayev
Roy Dotrice
General Alexeiev
Martin Potter
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Vernon Dobtcheff
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Alexander Knox
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Gapon
John Shrapnel
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Diana Quick
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David Baxter
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Frank Braña
Royal Sentry at Winter Palace (uncredited)
Jeremy Brett
(uncredited)
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Anthony Powell
Costume Design
Yvonne Blake
Costume Design
Christopher Gunning
Additional Music
Franklin J. Schaffner
Director
Sam Spiegel
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Dec 13, 1971
Rated GP, very close to PG
