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Chris Bryant (written by)
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Release Date:
17 February 1991 (USA) more
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A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
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Redgrave shines more (8 total)

Cast

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Vanessa Redgrave ... Empress Elizabeth

Christopher Plummer ... Sir Charles
Franco Nero ... Count Vorontsov

Marthe Keller ... Johanna
Maximilian Schell ... Frederick the Great

Julia Ormond ... Catherine
Mark Frankel ... Count Gregory Orlov
Reece Dinsdale ... Grand Duke Peter
Anna Kanakis ... Countess Vorontsova
John Shrapnel ... Archimandrite Todorsky

Hartmut Becker ... Catherine's Father
Alexander Kerst ... Prussian Ambassador

Laurie Holden ... Princess Deshkova
Katharine Schlesinger ... Elizabeth Vorontsova
Katya Galitzine ... Maria Choglokov
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Empress Elizabeth: I imagine nothing, I suspect everything. An Empress with no enemies is no Empress. more
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Version of Catherine the Great (1995) (TV) more

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Redgrave shines, 21 December 2006
Author: hugobolso-1 from Uruguay

in this story with lot of historical mistakes. There are two big miniseries in the 90 about Catherine The Great, the second one with Catherine Zeta Jones was much better. Zeta Jones character was cult but intringuing, while Ms. Ormond (even when she shines with her beauty and acting skills) is little more than a damsel in destress. However there is a thing that save this miniseries for the total melodrama. And that's it Vanessa Redgrave as Elisabeth Petrovna. She really rules, and she looks young, the Empress Elisabeth died in her early fifties, while she met Catherine in her last thirsties. And Redgrave look young, passionated and energic, the quite opposite of the pale version of Jeanne Moreau who was too old for the role in Zeta Jones miniseries.

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