- 出演: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed, John Rhys-Davies
- 監督: John Goldsmith, Marvin J. Chomsky
- 脚本: John Goldsmith, Frank Tudisco
- 製作者： Carla Thoeren, Fred Sidewater, Konstantin Thoeren, Kurt J. Mrkwicka
- 形式: Color, Import
- テープ数：: 1
- 販売元: A&E Home Video
- VHS発売日: 2001/02/27
- 時間: 100 分
- ASIN: B0000524F3
- Amazon ベストセラー商品ランキング: ビデオ - 92,463位 (ビデオのベストセラーを見る)
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Russian history occurs on a sweeping scale, but that takes a bigger budget than A&E can muster. So instead the cable network keeps its treatment of Russian empress Catherine II indoors as much as possible. That allows the camera to linger over the impossibly lovely face of Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the plot to focus on the political machinations of 18th-century Russia. Catherine goes from a bookish teen bride (her husband is the crazy and possibly impotent nephew of Russia's Empress Elizabeth) to the legendary empress who successfully concluded the Seven Years' War with Prussia, conquered Turkey, and put down a rebellion led by a Cossack pretending to be her long-dead husband.
The movie stumbles a bit when it ventures outdoors--it's hard to imagine Russia really conquered the Ottoman Turks with a 12-man army--but sizzles inside. Zeta-Jones conveys both passion and hard-edged ambition as her character transforms herself from manipulated to manipulator. Many of those manipulations occur in the bedroom, and the movie takes some liberties in portraying her union with military leader Grigory Potemkin (Paul McGann); here he's practically a saint, although history remembers him a bit less nobly.
The supporting cast includes Jeanne Moreau in a masterful portrayal of Empress Elizabeth, along with Ian Richardson, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif. Although there's plenty of scenery for them to chew, they hold back, allowing Zeta-Jones her 100 minutes of greatness. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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In this gripping, real-life fairy tale, a young German princess rises from relative obscurity to the Russian throne as one of the most remarkable monarchs in history--CATHERINE THE GREAT. A strange twist of fate in 1744 brings 15-year-old, foreign-born princess Sophia Fredericka (Catherine Zeta Jones) to the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia (Jeanne Moreau) where she becomes Catherine II, the wife of the Empress nephew Peter (Hannes Jaenicke). Through steely courage, audacious shrewdness and unbridled treachery, Catherine triumphs over her despicable husband in their all-or-nothing struggle for the throne, to become Empress and Czarina of Russia. Against the rich tapestry of 18th-century Russia, Omar Sharif (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia) and Mael Ferrer (Peter the Great, Falcon Crest) also star in this sweeping tale of a fascinating, commplex leader beloved by the Russian people who anointed her CATHERINE THE GREAT.
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