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Catherine the Great (1995)

Biography | 100 minutes
2,85 10 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Germany / Austria / United States

Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky and John Goldsmith

Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann and Ian Richardson

IMDb score: 6,1 (1.402)

Releasedate: 28 April 1996

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Catherine the Great plot

"Through Treachery, Passion and Courage, She Built an Empire"

At the request of Tsarina Elizabeth, fifteen-year-old Princess Sophia is married off to Peter, the Russian heir to the throne, under the name Catharina. However, Catherine has nothing in common with him and she falls in love with the young nobleman Saltykov. After giving birth to an heir to the throne, the child is immediately taken from her and her lover is sent abroad, after which Catherine feels very lonely. When Elizabeth dies, a fierce struggle for power ensues.

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"L'homme est né libre et partout il est dans les fers"

With this quote from Rousseau, Catherine portrays herself as the enlightened queen she was not in reality.

As her husband is deposed and murdered, the reins of serfdom are easily tightened in exchange for political support from the Russian landowners. The exploitation of the peasants culminates in the Pugachev Rebellion, which is brutally crushed.

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