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Mathilde 2017 Directed by Alexey Uchitel Матильда

Love That Changed An Empire

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.

Country Russia
Production Country Russia
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gneres Drama , History , Romance
Production Company TPO Rok
Budget $25,000,000
Release Date 25 October 2017
130 mins
Cast
Michalina Olszańska Matilda Kschessinska
Lars Eidinger Nicolas II
Luise Wolfram Alexandra Feodorovna
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Sergey Garmash Alexandre III
Evgeny Mironov Ivan Karlovich
Grigoriy Dobrygin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
Galina Tyunina Maria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir
Vitaliy Kovalenko Vladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke
Vitaly Kishchenko Vlasov, head of detective police
Thomas Ostermeier Fishel, psychiatrist
Sarah Stern Pierina Legnani
Yang Ge Kawakami, massage therapist
Konstantin Zheldin Pobedonostsev
Roman Chaliapin director's assistant