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Catherine the Great

Released Year: 1995

All Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: USA, Germany, Austria

Rating: 7.3 (0)

Languages: English

Runtime: 180

Sound: Dolby

Director(s):

• Marvin J. Chomsky
• John Goldsmith

Writing by:

• John Goldsmith writer
• Frank Tudisco writer

Produced by:

• Marvin J. Chomsky - producer
• Fred Sidewater - executive producer
• Wolf Bauer - executive producer
• Wolf Bauer - producer
• Kurt J. Mrkwicka - co-producer: Austria
• Carla Thoeren - associate producer
• Konstantin Thoeren - executive producer
• Konstantin Thoeren - producer

Cast:

• Ian Richardson - Vorontzov
• Brian Blessed - Bestuzhev
• Karl Johnson - Sheshkovsky
• John Rhys-Davies - Pugachev
• Agnès Soral - Countess Bruce
• Paul McGann - Potemkin
• Hannes Jaenicke - Peter
• Catherine Zeta-Jones - Catherine
• Craig McLachlan - Saltykov
• Mark McGann - Orlov
• Stephen McGann - Alexis Orlov

Music:

• Laurence Rosenthal

Plot Outline: Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

Plot: In this romanticized biography, a small German principalitys unexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive son and heir of the Russian czarina Elisabeth, from whom she learns the cynical ropes of wielding absolute imperial power at any cost, including sacrificing her lover, young guards officer Saltykov, who must give her an heir which Peter cant and is then send abroad. After Elisabeths death, she quickly moves to seize power with military and courtier support and works to enlarge and modernize the empire, again putting statesmanship ahead of her lover, a military genius who defeats the Ottomans and governs the conquered territories for her.


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