The Scarlet Empress (1934)

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Written by Catherine II, Manuel Komroff

Directed by Josef von Sternberg

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1934

Rating: U Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Black and White

Classic depiction of the rise to power of the 18th-century Russian empress Catherine the Great. As a naive young German princess, she is made to renounce her nationality and marry the deranged Grand Duke Peter of Russia, who soon after ascends the throne. But the marriage is not consummated, and both soon have affairs and become locked in a deadly power struggle in which Catherine displays her new-found wisdom, worldliness and strength.

Cast

Marlene DietrichPrincess Sophia Frederica
John LodgeCount Alexei
Sam JaffeGrand Duke Peter
Louise DresserEmpress Elizabeth Petrovna
C. Aubrey SmithPrince August
Gavin GordonCapt. Gregori Orloff
Olive TellPrincess Johanna Elizabeth
Ruthelma StevensCountess Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
Davison ClarkArchimandrite Simeon Todorsky
Erville AldersonChancelor Alexei Bestuchef
Philip SleemanCount Lestoq
Marie WellsMarie Tshoglokof
Hans Heinrich von TwardowskiIvan Shuvolov
Gerald FieldingLt. Dmitri
Maria RivaSophia as a child

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