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Mathilde (2017)
Directed by Aleksey Uchitel
Overview
It portrays the memories of Matilda Kshesinskaya and her love affair with the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Matilda, a Polish-born ballerina from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, had a brief and intense romance with Nicholas between 1892 and 1894, before Nicholas married Alexandra Feodorovna and was crowned Tsar after his father’s death. It also explores their relationship, facing societal pressures and interference from Nicholas’s mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, as well as Matilda’s involvement with other members of the imperial family, the Romanovs, such as Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Michalina Olszańska | Lars Eidinger | Luise Wolfram | Danila Kozlovsky | Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė | Sergey Garmash | Evgeny Mironov | Grigoriy Dobrygin | Galina Tyunina | Vitaliy Kovalenko | Vitaly Kishchenko | Thomas Ostermeier | Sarah Stern | Irina Lerman | Yang Ge | Aleksandra Serebryakova | Konstantin Zheldin | Роман Шаляпин | Olesya Smirnova-Martsinkevich | Roman Alexeev | Sergey Malyugov | Stepan Pivkin | Ekaterina Dar | Kirill Andreev | Sergey Korenkov | Alina Humenuk | Eduard Orlov | Denis Shlenkov | Aleksandr Udaltsov | Lyudmila Grigorash | Mikhail Samochko