 | Catherine the Great | 0150 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genres:DramaRomance Biography History | ||||||||||||||||||||
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In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's 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 can't and is then send abroad. After Elisabeth's 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.Cast:
 Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine |  Paul McGann Potemkin |  Ian Richardson Vorontzov |  Brian Blessed Bestuzhev |  John Rhys-Davies Pugachev |
 Craig McLachlan Saltykov |  Hannes Jaenicke Peter | Agnès Soral Countess Bruce |  Mark McGann Orlov |  Karl Johnson Sheshkovsky |
| Stephen McGann Alexis Orlov |  Veronica Ferres Vorontzova |  Mel Ferrer Patriarch | Jeanne Moreau Elizabeth |  Omar Sharif Razumovsky |
 Tim McInnerny Mad Monk |  Horst Frank Schwerin | Olivier Pierre |  Vernon Dobtcheff Naryshkin |  Christoph Waltz Mirovich |
 Geoffrey Whitehead | George Murcell | Fritz Hammel | Franz Morak |  Paul Kreschka |
| Jaromír Borek | Walter Anichhofer (as Walter Ainchhofer) | Holger Kriechel Soldat (uncredited) |  Richard Rowlands Captain Ushakov (uncredited) |
