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Jan Niklas (born 15 October 1947) is a German film and television actor. He is best known for appearing in TV films such as Peter The Great , Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna and Anne Frank: The Whole Story .
Peter the Great: With Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard. Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
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Peter the Great is a 1986 American biographical historical drama television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and Lawrence Schiller, based on Robert K. Massie's 1980 non-fiction book Peter the Great: His Life and World.
YearAwardCategoryRecipient(s)1986Marvin J. Chomsky Lawrence Schiller ...19861986"Part 1" Laurence Rosenthal1986"Part 1" John Blezard Alfred Dobsak ...Apr 14, 2017 · But for all that, the performance of Jan Niklas and Maximilian Schell, playing the young and older Peter, combine with costumes, sets and atmosphere to provide a fairly convincing image of Peter and his struggle to drag Russia kicking and screaming into the 18th century.
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Feb 3, 1986 · In “Peter the Great,” Niklas plays a bold character with command presence who leads Russia into the West’s Renaissance. But on a quiet Sunday afternoon in his hotel room here,...
Niklas received his first Golden Globe nomination for PETER THE GREAT, a $30-million-dollar NBC-TV mini-series costarring: Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard and Sir Laurence Olivier. Jan portrayed the young Czar Peter in the first four hours; Schell portrayed the older Czar.
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Peter the Great is powerfully portrayed by Jan Niklas (younger czar) and Maximillian Schell (adult czar) with Maximillian Schell giving the character epic proportions in the latter years.
