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Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 British epic historical drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, from a screenplay by James Goldman and Edward Bond based on Robert K. Massie's 1967 book of the same name.
Dec 13, 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra: Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson. Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
May 22, 2015 · Nicholas and Alexandra. Nicholas II was a highly sensitive man who preferred to be with his family than involve himself in the day-today running of his nation. A weak man, he was frequently bullied into doing things by his overbearing wife, Alexandra. Nicholas had married Princess Alexandra in 1894.
Feb 1, 2000 · Featuring a new introduction by its Pulitzer Prize -- winning author, this powerful work sweeps us back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political naivete, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia.
Nicholas And Alexandra. The fall of the last Russian czar is the subject of this lavish, Oscar (r)-winning epic. 863 IMDb 7.2 3 h 8 min 1971. X-Ray PG. Military and War · Drama · Compelling · Philosophical. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $12.09. More purchase. options.
When Tsar Nicholas weds the German princess Alexandra, the marriage proves unpopular with the Russian people, a situation not improved when she has four...
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In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia.
Moderate reformers argue in favor of a constitutional monarchy as is found in the United Kingdom, but Nicholas (Michael Jayston) will hear nothing of it, continuing his father's harsh policies and retaining absolute control.
Nicholas and Alexandra chronicles the final fourteen years of Imperial Russia before the 1917 revolution, which led to civil war, the assassination of the royal family and the creation of the Communist state, the Soviet Union, in 1922. Although the chronology of some events was changed for the dramatic continuity of the film, it is historically ...
Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 British epic historical drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, from a screenplay by James Goldman and Edward Bond based on Robert K. Massie's 1967 book of the same name.
