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- DirectorMichael MouyalStarsKen VedsegaardPeter GantzlerErik HolmeyHelgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents' deaths--and someone he never expected to see again.Rurik of Ladoga 862-879
Ken Vedsegaard
Oleg of Novgorod 882-912
Ken Vedsegaard - DirectorGábor KoltayStarsFranco NeroGéza TordyImre SinkovitsIn 896, the Magyar chief Arpad and his seven tribes venture into the Carpathian basin from the steppes.Oleg of Novgorod 882-912
László Helyey - CreatorMichael HirstStarsKatheryn WinnickGustaf SkarsgårdAlexander LudwigVikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.Oleg of Novgorod 882-912
Danila Kozlovsky. - StarsEvgeniy TsyganovMariya AndreevaNadezhda MarkinaIn 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantine princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.Ivan III 1462-1505
Yevgeny Tsyganov
Sophia Palaiologina
Mariya Andreyeva - DirectorVasili GoncharovYakov ProtazanovStarsA. SlavinYelizaveta UvarovaS. TarasovIvan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorShawn LevyStarsBen StillerOwen WilsonAmy AdamsSecurity guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorVasili GoncharovStarsPyotr ChardyninAleksandra GoncharovaAndrey GromovConsists of four scenes: the feast at the court of Ivan the Terrible, the assault of Kalashnikov's wife by Oprichnik Kiribeevich, the argument between Kalashnikov and Kiribeevich, and the fistfight between the protagonists.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorGeorg FenadyStarsRay MillandElsa LanchesterMaurice EvansThe murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own the museum or if Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
Maria Temryukovna 1561-1569 - DirectorGennadiy VasilevStarsKakhi KavsadzeIgor TalkovLarisa ShakhvorostovaThe reign of Ivan the Terrible was a time of glory, luxury and cruelty, a time when all concepts were perverted, baseness was called virtue, and betrayal was included in the law.Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorVladimir GorikkerStarsRaisa NedashkovskayaNatalya RudnayaOtar KoberidzeIvan the Terrible 1530-1584
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsEmil JanningsDagny ServaesBernhard GoetzkePeter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.Peter the Great 1672-1725
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovNikolay CherkasovAlla TarasovaA historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.Peter the Great 1672-1725
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsVladimir VysotskiyAleksey PetrenkoIvan RyzhovLoosely based on Peter the Great's Negro, Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia.Peter the Great 1672-1725
- DirectorOleg RyaskovStarsDmitriy MillerAleksandr BukharovKseniya KnyazevaAt the beginning of the 18th century, king of France exiles two duelists from the state: one to Russia and another to Sweden, which are at war.Peter the Great 1672-1725
- StarsMaximilian SchellVanessa RedgraveOmar SharifBiopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.Peter the Great 1672-1725
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinSuzanne BianchettiDiana KarenneA flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Rudolf Klein-Rogge - DirectorPaul CzinnerAlexander KordaStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elisabeth BergnerFlora RobsonStraightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Catherine the Great 1762-1796
Elisabeth Bergner - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichJohn LodgeSam JaffeA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Sam Jaffe
Catherine the Great 1762-1796
Marlene Dietrich - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsVanessa RedgraveChristopher PlummerFranco NeroA German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Reece Dinsdale
Catherine the Great 1762-1796
Julia Ormond - DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSilvana ManganoVan HeflinViveca LindforsIn 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Van Heflin
Catherine the Great
Viveca Lindfors - StarsYuuki TaiAkihiko IshizumiBlake McMahonIt's 1742 in Paris, France. Louis XV is still king of France. A woman was found dead in a coffin floating in the Seine River. The brother of the deceased woman is D'Eon, who is determined to find the murderer of his sister: Lia. But as D'Eon investigates and tracks down the killer. He soon discovers that strange and supernatural things are involved with this series of killings. And only he can avenge Lia's death. As evil lurks in the palaces of the royal and the dark side of Europe.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
- StarsMarina AleksandrovaMichael GorVladimir YaglychThe life of Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German-born princess who came to Russia as the wife of Peter III, chosen by her aunt Elizabeth, and who, once in power, transformed the Russian empire.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Paul I of Russia 1754-1801 - CreatorTony McNamaraStarsElle FanningPhoebe FoxGwilym LeeA royal woman living in rural Russia during the 18th century is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia, when she marries an Emperor.Peter III of Russia 1728-1762
Nicholas Hoult
Catherine the Great 1762-1796
Elle Fanning