Mathilde (2017)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $25,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 0.8214 |
Directed By
Alexey Uchitel
Crew
Vladimir Vinokur
Anna Shalashina
Filipp Pastukhov
Elena Bystrova
Kira Saksaganskaya
Julia Korol
Alexey Uchitel
Aleksandr Terekhov
Nadezhda Vasileva
Vera Zelinskaya
Elena Zhukova
Michael Katims
Kirill Vasilenko
Tamara Frid
Marina Lebedeva
Kristina Uchuvatkina
Natalya Titova
Konstantin Sukharkov
Ilya Uchitel
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Valeriy Sevastyanov
Oleg Korytin
Alexey Gusev
Alexey Uchitel
Olga Mikhaylova
Yury Klimenko
Marco Beltrami
Daria Danilova
TOP CAST
Michalina Olszańska
Matilda Kschessinska
Lars Eidinger
Nicolas II
Luise Wolfram
Alexandra Feodorovna
Danila Kozlovsky
Vorontsov
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
Aleksandra Serebryakova
ballerina
Konstantin Zheldin
Pobedonostsev
Roman Chaliapin
director's assistant
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