Nicholas and Alexandra

Name: Nicholas and Alexandra
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Released: December 13, 1971
Duration: 183 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Ania Marson, Candace Glendenning, Fiona Fullerton, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth

1971

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Columbia-Warner Distributors | Release Date: December 13, 1971 | GP

Starring: Ania Marson, Candace Glendenning, Fiona Fullerton, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Janet Suzman, Lynne Frederick, Michael Jayston, Roderic Noble, Tom Baker

Summary: 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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, War

Rating: GP

Runtime: 183 min

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Sam Spiegel comes up with a rarity: the intimate epic, in telling the fascinating story of the downfall of the Romanovs. Read full review

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While it remains a treat for the eyes, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA suffers from the filmmakers' attempts to tell too much. Read full review

Dave Kehr

One of the best of a bad genre, Franklin J. Schaffner’s Sweeping Historical Romance manages some moderately intelligent historical observations amid its lavishly re-created period decor and the puppy-dog pathos of the two central characters (Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman). Read full review

The Guardian Alex von Tunzelmann

Nicholas and Alexandra boasts terrific performances and gorgeous production design, but it's bloated and unwieldy. There is more history here than the film-makers know what to do with. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

A lengthy, visually impressive period piece with little in the way of new material or fresh spins on history to distinguish it. Read full review

Andrew Sarris

The sobriety of the entire enterprise is ill-suited to the lurid period in history it represents. [23 Dec 1971, p.61]

Pauline Kael

As obsequiously respectful as if it had been made about living monarchs who might reward the producer with a command performance. Viewers are put in the position of celebrity-lovers eager to partake of the home life of the dullest of the Czars.

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