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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History /
War /
Music
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Director:
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Franklin J. Schaffner
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Actors:
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Lynne Frederick,
Janet Suzman,
Irene Worth,
Roderic Noble,
Ania Marson,
Michael Jayston,
Candace Glendenning,
Fiona Fullerton,
Harry Andrews,
Tom Baker
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Duration:
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183 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)198
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Plot Summary:
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The story of the final years of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra of Russia, and the revolution which turned their lives upside down, and changed the cosmos. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Depict. Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Detonate Decoration, Most desirable Apparel Design.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Archaic-fashioned, overlong costume epic, comfortably right in its expectation of the Tsar Nicholas as a saint who knew not...
Nicholas and Alexandra
This film won Oscars for deceit direction and costumes and Deo volente inspired Alan Parker's condemnation of such tedious works as 'the Laura Ashley tutor of steam-making'. Certainly they infrequently leak out duller - principally in the latter half - and even when desist from sooner than some 28 minutes after freedom, this remained a artwork-ticket portrayal of the matrix years of Czarist Russia, seen with the aid the eyes of Nicholas (Jayston) and Alexandra (Suzman). The leads along reasonably well in the earlier scenes, but the passing parade of characters is just that. Production values are grave, but it lacks energy.
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