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  The Scarlet Empress

Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress. The domineering Empress hopes to improve the royal blood line. Sophia doesn't like her husband, but she likes Russia, and is very fond of Russian soldiers. She dutifully produces a son -- of questionable fatherhood, but no one seems to mind that. After the old empress dies, Sophia engineers a coup d'etat with the aid of the military, does away with Peter, and becomes Catherine the Great.

100 Minutes

Manuel Komroff (story- based on the diary of Catherine the Great)

Josef von Sternberg

Marlene Dietrich....Catherine II
John Lodge....Count Alexei
Sam Jaffe....Grand Duke Peter
Louise Dresser....Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
C. Aubrey Smith....Prince August
Gavin Gordon....Capt. Gregori Orloff
Olive Tell....Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Ruthelma Stevens....Countess Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
Davison Clark....Arch-Episcope
Erville Alderson....Chancelor Alexei Bestuchef
Philip Sleeman....Count Lestoq (as Phillip Sleeman)
Marie Wells....Marie Tshoglokof
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski....Ivan Shuvolov (as Hans von Twardowski)
Gerald Fielding....Lt. Dmitri
Maria Riva....Sophia as a Child (as Maria)

Genres

Drama, History, Romance

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