Russian Tsars and the Romanov Family
Biographical and fictionalized films and TV productions about Russian Tsars and members of the Romanov family.
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- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
- StarsIlya SherbininThis history of the Romanov dynasty, the family that ruled Russia from 1613 until the October Revolution of 1917.
- CreatorMatthew WeinerStarsDiane LaneJJ FeildAaron EckhartAnthology of eight stories about people who believe themselves to be descendant of the Russian Royal family.
- StarsMaximilian SchellVanessa RedgraveOmar SharifBiopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
- The tale of the 18th century Russian Tsar Peter the Great's demise.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichJohn LodgeSam JaffeA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyJohn GoldsmithStarsCatherine Zeta-JonesPaul McGannIan RichardsonTrapped 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.
- StarsYulia SnigirPavel DerevyankoViktoriya AgalakovaThe story of Catherine the Great from the time she came to Russia as the bride of the heir to the Russian throne.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerAlexander KordaStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elisabeth BergnerFlora RobsonStraightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
- DirectorPaul BurgessJohn-Paul DavidsonStarsEmily BruniDiana DumbravaDan ChiriacDrama documentary reconstructing the life and times of Catherine the Great of Russia.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsMichael JaystonJanet SuzmanRoderic NobleTsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
- CreatorJohn ElliotStarsMichael HordernCharles KayBarry FosterThe collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIngrid BergmanYul BrynnerHelen HayesAn opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter O'TooleZero MostelJeanne MoreauSlapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.
- 2007–TV EpisodeDirectorDavid JankowskiStarsStéphane BernCyrille BoulayPhilippe BrenotAbout the life of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg.
- DirectorAntoine De MeauxStarsStéphane BernGrand Duchess AnastasiaGrand Duchess MariaAbout Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian empire, and the end of the ill-fated Romanov dynasty.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsRomy SchneiderCurd JürgensPierre BlancharCzar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.
- StarsAmy IrvingOlivia de HavillandJan NiklasStory of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only "surviving" child of the last Czar and Czarina of Russia.
- StarsLucy WorsleyJanet HartleySimon DixonBritish historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty.
- DirectorGleb PanfilovStarsAleksandr GalibinLynda BellinghamVladimir GrachyovThe story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
- DirectorEsfir ShubStarsMikhail AlekseyevAlexei BrusilovNikolai ChkheidzeIn May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsVladimir VysotskiyAleksey PetrenkoIvan RyzhovLoosely based on Peter the Great's Negro, Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia.
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsEmil JanningsDagny ServaesBernhard GoetzkePeter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovNikolay CherkasovAlla TarasovaA historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
- DirectorCatherine Faris KingStarsJessica AmmerMarja-Lewis RyanLidia PearlThe Romanovs' Last Photograph tells the story of the Romanov sisters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, in the hours leading up to their execution in 1918. The girls share their hopes, fears, and aspirations and they discuss existential themes, such as the frailty of human existence. They try to live their normal lives under constant dread of being caught on the wrong side of the Russian Revolution.
- 2007–TV Episode
- DirectorYuri ZhelyabuzhskyStarsLeonid LeonidovFilm about he childhood of the Russian Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great) and the transition between the reign of his father Alexei and his own.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsEdward ConnellyIliodorAlfred HickmanA dramatization of the Russian revolution and the influence upon the Russian royal family of the famous "mad monk," Rasputin.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsAlan RickmanGreta ScacchiIan McKellenHBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsChristopher LeeBarbara ShelleyRichard PascoThrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behavior, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg in pursuit of wealth and prestige. He soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism.
- DirectorJosée DayanIrakli KvirikadzeStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantVladimir MashkovA group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
- DirectorLouis NeroStarsFrancesco CabrasDaniele SavocaFranco NeroThe true story of the greatest occultist of 1900. The truth beyond the Legend.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHarry BaurMarcelle ChantalPierre Richard-WillmStory of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey PetrenkoAnatoliy RomashinVelta LineDetails the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
- StarsVladimir MashkovEkaterina KlimovaAndrey SmolyakovTV series about the mad monk Grigoriy Rasputin, who became a hugely influential figure at the court of Tsar Nicholas II.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsMichalina OlszanskaLars EidingerLuise WolframIn the twilight of Imperial Russia, prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of three Grand Dukes.
- DirectorCamille CerfStarsTsar Nicholas IITsarina AlexandraGrand Duchess AnastasiaThe coronation of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in Moscow.
- DirectorVladimir GardinYevgeni ChervyakovStarsYevgeni ChervyakovIrina VolodkoKonstantin KareninFilm about the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his relationship to his tsar, Nikolai I.
- DirectorGeoffroy FaugérolasStarsMichael FitzgeraldMark MosesMicah FitzgeraldIn 1918, Alexei Romanov, young prince hemophiliac, is caught in the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, having to choose between his family and The Empire of Russia.
- StarsRalph FiennesAlex KingstonLinda KenyonCycle of record films about life and death of the last Russian monarchs.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriAdolphe MenjouRod La RocqueAlexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.
- DirectorSvetlana DruzhininaStarsDmitriy KharatyanSergey ZhigunovMikhail MamaevIn the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsHildegard KnefSergio FantoniGiacomo Rossi StuartCaterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsÉdith JéhannePaule AndralOlaf FjordEmperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth and bring her back to Russia. Orloff and Tarakanova fall in love.
- DirectorFred CoeStarsGertrude LawrenceCathleen CordellMicheál MacLiammóirAn English officer must cope with the wiles of Catherine the Great.
- DirectorDon CampbellStarsSimon Sebag MontefioreNicholas SchatzkiDouglas SmithThe story of how Catherine the Great rose from the fringes of nobility to become Empress of Russia.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsZarah Leander
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsDmitriy ZolotukhinTamara MakarovaNatalya BondarchukPart one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsDmitriy ZolotukhinTamara MakarovaNatalya BondarchukBased on the novel by A. N. Tolstoy "Peter I" (1945). Continuation of the film "Peter's Youth" (1980). At the end of the XVII century, Russia suffered huge losses in trade, as it had no access to the sea. The young Peter I begins the construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh and takes the Azov fortress. At this time, dissatisfaction with the rule of the young monarch is brewing among the courtiers.
- StarsStepan StarchikovBoris NevzorovAleksandr FatyushinHistorical epic that takes place during the times of Peter the Great. It shows the changes brought to Russia through the fates of three different people.
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsNikolay YeryomenkoSvetlana KryuchkovaAnna SamokhinaIn 1775 Catherine II sends infamous count Orlov to capture and bring to Russia the supposed pretender to the Russian throne. Who has been claiming to be Elizabeth of Russia's daughter.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovAlla TarasovaNikolay CherkasovThe second part of the story is about the life and state activity of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
- StarsNikolay BurovVera SotnikovaValeriy BarinovA historical epic about the tragic and happy love of Emperor Alexander II and the young princess Ekaterina Dolgoruky. Palace intrigues, assassination attempts, conspiracies - inherent in the atmosphere of that era.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsAleksandra NazarovaViktor TarasovBoris KhmelnitskiySofiya Perovskaya is a revolutionary hero in Russia. Here she is given a full appreciation, acknowledging her aristocratic roots, while admiring her sympathies for the Russian people (narodniki) and the seriousness of her purpose. With her lover and husband, Andrei Zhelyabov, she plots the murder of Czar Alexander II, carrying it to a final, fatal conclusion. [Note that the involvement of Lenin's brother with Perovskaya's revolutionary group, Narodnaya Volya (People's WIll), came at a later date, and had nothing to do with Perovskaya or the plot to kill Alexander II.]
- DirectorRobert HosseinStarsGert FröbePeter McEneryRobert HosseinGrigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsMalcolm McDowellOleg YankovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOver seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.
- StarsHelen MirrenJason ClarkeGina McKeeThe life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- CreatorTony McNamaraStarsElle FanningPhoebe FoxGwilym LeeA royal woman living in rural Russia during the 18th century is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia, when she marries an Emperor.