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title: "Nicholas & Alexandra"
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# Nicholas & Alexandra

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Produced by the legendary Sam Spiegel (Lawrence of Arabia) and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), based on Robert K. Massie’s scholarly biography, tells the story of the last of the Romanov dynasty, overtaken by the headlong rush of history and the Russian Revolution. The Tsar (Michael Jayston) and Tsarina (Janet Suzman), distracted by the deadly hemophilia of their only son and blindly convinced of their right to autocratic rule, have no way of coping with the demands of their starving and impoverished people—and their fealty to the bizarre charismatic monk Rasputin (Tom Baker) only hastens their downfall. Featuring cameo appearances by Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Jack Hawkins, Irene Worth, John Wood, Brian Cox, and Ian Holm. LANGUAGE: English SUBTITLES: English SDH VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 2.35:1 AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA 1971 / Color 189 MINUTES NOT RATED REGION FREE

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    LONG, but worth it.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2023*

This is a long movie with 1970's pacing.  People used to modern pacing will think it is atrociously slow.  Still, it covers a huge volume of material and is easy to follow without knowing a ton of the historical fact.  Disk was fine and image and sound quality were very good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A terrific film for the history buff, costume drama lover, and romance fan, with a great cast, great scenes, and great writing
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015*

I first saw this movie decades ago, and it's always been one of my favorites ever since.It's difficult to condense Robert Massie's beautifully written (and researched for the time) epic biography of the last Tsar and Tsarina into a three-hour film, but the production team did an excellent job. It has the usual critical elements for success -- a terrific script, great editing, lavish sets and scenes, outstanding actors and acting, a family crisis, and historical drama.My favorite elements of the movie are how it weaves the various elements -- you see and don't see critical elements, but they are rendered brilliantly. For example, we don't actually see the October Revolution -- we just see Trotsky and his pals getting the order to do it, the men loading up with their equipment, and heading off to their objectives. Cut to Kerensky and his desperate crew in the Winter Palace, desperately trying to figure out what to do, told that the cruiser Aurora has every gun trained on them. With that, cut to Lenin on the podium of the Duma, announcing "We shall now begin to build the Socialist Order," to cheering. Pull back and Lenin turns from being a human being on a podium to being the chiseled semi-divine statue of the Soviet Union. You never see the "revolution,' never see the fighting (actually scuffling) in the Winter Palace, never see Kerensky and his buddies fleeing the country. All implied and inferred, and all dramatic.There's a superb cast of actors in key roles: Laurence Olivier has some great scenes as Count Sergius Witte, a hard, tough, and seasoned politician, who implores the Tsar to take action to save the dynasty and warns him not to start the Great War, with no success either time. Michael Redgrave is the Foreign Minister, Harry Andrews is the commander-in-chief, Jack Hawkins is a devoted retainer, Tom Baker is a maniacal Rasputin, Irene Worth is a firm Dowager Tsarina, Harry Andrews is the realistic Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholayevich and Commander-in-Chief, Roy Dotrice is the capable Marshal Alexiev who has to break to to the Tsar that he's got to go, Eric Porter is the reforming Prime Minister Stolypin who takes a bullet, Simon Cox makes his movie debut as a caustic Trotsky, Michael Bryant is an ambitious Lenin, Julian Glover is the betrayed Father Gapon, John Wood is the Romanovs' sympathetic jailer, Ian Holm as their unsympathetic jailer, Alan Webb as their polite, correct, and ruthless killer, Curt Jurgens as a jovial German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann, and Timothy West, Jeremy Brett, John Shrapnel, and Steven Berkoff even turn up for a few lines.Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman are at the center of it all, with Jayston as a fundamentally weak and incompetent Tsar and Suzman as an easily-led (by Rasputin) and domineering Tsarina.The movie has some terrific pieces of dialogue -- Lenin has the best lines in the picture, when he sneers at Trotsky's writing, talks about how he'll do anything to gain power, and whines with self-pity at being ignored.There are epic scenes -- Russian troops swearing loyalty to their Tsar as they go to their deaths early in the picture, the collapse of the Romanov dynasty during the war is seen when Cossacks refuse to kill civilians and instead help them cut open sacks of grain, the shocking climax.And at the core of the film -- the Tsarevich's hemophilia. Had he not suffered from the disease Queen Victoria spread through her family across Europe's reigning families, how would history have changed?This is a terrific film for the history buff, the costume drama lover, and, at some levels, the romance fan, with the doomed love of Nicholas and Alexandra.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Nicholas, Lenin, Trotsky, Kerensky, Rasputin all appear. Each important, each driving events that change the world.
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017*

This presentation is close to a historical recreation of the interplay of the self-absorbed Romanov family (and the Russian aristocracy) with the desperate demands of the poor Russian populace. Well done.Nicholas, Lenin, Trotsky, Kerensky, Rasputin all appear. Each important, each driving events that change the world.A effort was clearly made to find actors who resembled the key players. Fascinating!Why did Lenin's Bolshevik's win control? How did Nicholas fail so miserably? What drove Kerensky's government to fail? Why did Germany send Lenin from prison to freedom in Russia?The superstitious reverence of the Russian aristocracy for ''holy men'' shown by the General recommending Rasputin to the queen . . .''Authentic holy man. Cures diseases by the laying on of hands. I've seen him do it.''Rasputin's influence, his control of the queen and the Tsar, is (correctly) described as one key to the dissolution of the Romanov dynasty. His personality, wicked combined with holy, is clearly presented. Queen believes only Rasputin can prevent her hemophiliac son from dying. Rasputin's influence affects even appointments of officials. Profound resentment!Another crack in Russian government is the increasing demand for a British style parliament- aDuma. Horrible suffering, starvation, injustice, poverty in the same world as incredible opulence, overwhelming arrogance, create demand for change.The winter palace massacre is shown. More than that, the inability of the Tsar, or anyone else, to consider any other solution, is just pathetic.The contrast with the Romanov privileged life - vacations at the sea, fruit at every meal, etc., and the misery, poverty and hunger of the poor - is consistently portrayed. Heart wrenching.The opera shooting of the prime minister infuriates Nicholas and escalates police brutality.Now politics enters even more when Germany declares war on Russia. From here on the political issues dominate.Chapters -2 ''I have a son''3 Mama's birthday4 Fantastic holy fellow5 Hemophilia6 ''My baby's dying''7 Sending for Rasputin8 Winter palace massacre9 Summer vacation10 Rasputin says goodbye11 ''Bring him back!''12 Opera shooting13 Severe attack14 Rasputin returns15 Germany declares war16 Dismissed17 Assassination party18 Chaos comes to Russia19 The Tsar abdicates20 Nicholas returns home21 A hero's welcome (Lenin)22 Siberia23 Grand Duchesses defense24 Easter celebration25 Under arrest26 Alexis desperate act27 Imprisoned28 In the cellarThis work focuses on the Romanov family drama. Nevertheless, draws the connection from Nicholas' weak, indecisive character and the Revolution. The contrast with Lenin - with his profound drive, his determination, his overwhelming vision, is vivid.Presentation is 189 minutes. Seems historically accurate (as far as I know).` Not intense, but more of a progression of blunders and arrogance.Plan to watch again with my grandson. This is a key start to the modern world. Worth knowing.(See also the new book by Arthur Herman “1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder”)

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