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1971·189 min·Released

Nicholas and Alexandra

“The Last Dance of the Romanovs.”

Drama
War
History

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.

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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Cast & Crew

Michael Jayston

Michael Jayston

Nicholas

Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman

Alexandra

Roderic Noble

Roderic Noble

Alexis

Ania Marson

Ania Marson

Olga

Lynne Frederick

Lynne Frederick

Tatiana

Candace Glendenning

Candace Glendenning

Marie

Fiona Fullerton

Fiona Fullerton

Anastasia

Harry Andrews

Harry Andrews

Grand Duke Nicholas (Nikolasha)

Irene Worth

Irene Worth

The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna

Tom Baker

Tom Baker

Rasputin

Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

Count Fredericks

Timothy West

Timothy West

Dr. Botkin

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Written on 10/15/2025

To be fair to Sam Spiegel, he didn’t hold the purse strings too tightly on this sumptuous dramatisation of the lives of Czar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman) and it looks almost as stunning as “Doctor Zhivago” (1965). Sadly, though, that look doesn’t translate into anything very compelling to watch as neither lead actor really has what it takes to enliven either their roles or the tumultuous events at this fascinatingly turbulent time in European history. Luck isn’t exactly on the Romanov side right from the start when their only son Alexis is born with haemophilia, the Czarina finds herself under the sinister influence of Rasputin (the reliably hammy Tom Baker) and he finds his nation involved - on the losing side - in a war against Japan in Korea and with a domestic population no longer prepared to automatically accept the divine right of the emperor. What now ensues uses some large-scale, grand, cinematography intertwined with the excellent attention paid to the costume and production designs to depict historical events but I found this really more a victory for style over substance. Sir Larry Olivier can just about carry of his role as his sagely and increasingly frustrated premier Count Witte and Irene Worth always did possess a certain imperiousness that works well here as the Dowager Empress but I struggled with Harry Andrews, Timothy West and especially with a Jack Hawkins who looked like he had bathed in aspic before attaching a moustache he borrowed from a Marx brother. It comes alive a little with half an hour to go as a certain inevitable mortality impacts on this Imperial family, but I still felt it a passionless and rather sterile depiction of the hypocrisies and double standards that prevailed in a country where a palace and a ghetto existed side by side and where religious mysticism and the positively Machiavellian nature of the political machinations were rife. An opportunity missed, I would say, that really could have benefited from casting that didn’t worry so much about actual resemblance but more on substantive characterisation and perhaps focussed on a shorter, more concentrated, timeframe.

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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]