Nicholas & Alexandra [VHS]
by Franklin J. Schaffner
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Actor: Ania Marson, Janet Suzman, Lynne Frederick, Michael Jayston, Roderic NobleDirector: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Producer: Franklin J. Schaffner
Producer: Andrew Donally
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Writer: Edward Bond
Writer: James Goldman
Writer: Robert K. Massie
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 183 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-24
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Nicholas & Alexandra [VHS]
Movie Review: acting too out there
Summary: 1 Stars
I felt the acting was very understated and illogical in this movie. It is rare that I stop watching a movie, but I shut this one off due to boredom. Sorry I purchased now and wished someone had panned the movie before I bought it.Movie Review: jazz doll
Summary: 4 Stars
Good movie. Let's you know how leaders of countries loss everything including their lives and the lives of their families by not being strong men.Movie Review: Nicholas and Alexandra
Summary: 5 Stars
Fabulous account of the Tsar Nicholas and his wife and their downfall. Very well done, beautiful scenery, great acting. Couldn't be better. We loved this movie!Movie Review: Tsar wars
Summary: 2 Stars
Its sheer scale is about the only thing that makes this 1971 film adaptation of Robert K. Massie's enormously popular biography of the last of the tsars and his wife something worth seeing. The Bloody Sunday massacre in front of the Winter Palace, furious debates in the Duma, the assassination of Stolypin at the Kiev Opera House, the Tsar's blessing of the troops at the beginning of the First World War: all these are recreated on a giant scale, perhaps equal to the actual events. But nothing is done to make the happenings cohere, and the fundamental dislikability of the title characters (he a weakling, she a hysteric) doesn't do much to help things here. Massie relied on their parental concern for the Tsarevitch's hemophilia to help make his biographical subjects more sympathetic, but Franklin J. Schaffner is so insistent on giving full weight to others involved in the events of the Russian Revolution (including Kerensky, Lenin, Trotsky, and others of the revolutionaries) that the Romanovs don't provide much of a focus for anything. It just seems more like you're seeing a gigantic expensive pageant with little purpose. Neither Michael Jayson nor Janet Suzman do much with the title roles (Jayson overacts all over the place), and there's little done to make the imperial children very interesting either. The Tsarevitch is treated like an unnerving little prophet of the historical horrors to come, and almost nothing is done to distinguish his sisters from one another (amusingly they behave at times as if they possessed a kind of single hive-mind, like the Midwich Cuckoos). Practically no one stands out here at all, even Irene Worth as the Dowager Empress and Laurence Olivier as Count Witte. The sound design is curiously flat, as if all the lines had been postdubbed at the same distance away from the microphone.Movie Review: Tzar 54, Where Are You??
Summary: 3 Stars
This rather over-rich and poorly acted film is in fact a masterpiece in its own fickle way. Reminiscent of "Dr. Zhivago", the lavishly produced, beautifully colored 1970s film version of Robert Massie's biography of the Tzar and his family is pleasant enough, and has all the alleged history in perfect order. The acting could have been better (the fellow playing Tzar Nicholas is frankly repugnant) but one cannot fail to LOVE Tom Baker in his first real big-time starring role as Gregory Rasputin, creepy and funny as hell at all times. (A role Baker happily reprised some years later in a dreadful biographical film about Rasputin.) This is a nice, calm feast for the eyes on a cold, snow-bound day.
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