The Rise of Catherine the Great
Film193495 min5.8/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Paul Czinner
The more he hated her, the more she loved him...this girl of MANY loves who rose to rule a hundred million souls but could not govern her own heart.
The story
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Cast & crew
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Grand Duke Peter
Elisabeth BergnerCatherine
Flora RobsonEmpress Elisabeth
Gerald du MaurierLecocq
Irene VanbrughPrincess Anhalt-Zerbst
Joan GardnerKatushienka
Dorothy HaleCountess Olga
Diana NapierCountess Vorontzova
Griffith JonesGrigory Orlov
Gibb McLaughlinBestujhev
Clifford HeatherleyOgarev
Laurence HanrayGoudovitchExplore the crew
- Producer
- Alexander Korda
- Producer
- Ludovico Toeplitz
- Director of Photography
- Georges Périnal
- Director
- Paul Czinner
- Original Music Composer
- Muir Mathieson
- Original Music Composer
- Ernst Toch
- Editor
- Stephen Harrison
- Screenplay
- Marjorie Deans