
Doctor Zhivago(1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.



Michael Jayston
Nicholas

Janet Suzman
Alexandra

Roderic Noble
Alexis

Ania Marson
Olga

Lynne Frederick
Tatiana

Candace Glendenning
Marie

Fiona Fullerton
Anastasia

Harry Andrews
Grand Duke Nicholas (Nikolasha)

Irene Worth
The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna

Tom Baker
Rasputin
Nicholas and Alexandra is a drama, war, history film released in 1971 exploring themes of based on novel or book, czar / tsar / tzar, russian revolution (1917), imperial russia, 1900s, romanov dinasty. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, it stars Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble. 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.
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