The Rise of Catherine the Great

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Also Known As: Catherine the Great

Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner, in her first English-language film, is radiant as the obscure German princess who would become the most powerful woman in Russian history. Hers is an excellent performance in a difficult role, where it would have been easy to be upstaged by the other, flashier, characters. As Grand Duke Peter - later Czar Peter III - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. behaves like a homicidal Hamlet, all moodiness & flares of deadly temper. He makes an interesting effort to create a charmer out of a pathetic man who was obviously a maniac.

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Internet Archive, in More feature films

Licence or status

Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Alexander Korda, Ludovico Toeplitz

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