Catherine the Great (1995)
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 (1.411)
Releasedate: 28 April 1996
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
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.
Actors and actresses
Catherine
Potemkin
Vorontzov
Bestuzhev
Mirovich
Peter
Pugachev
Gräfin Bruce
Vorontzova
Patriarch
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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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