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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Nika Award for Best Costume Design (2018)
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Box office
Made on a $25M budget
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Setting
Set in Saint Petersburg
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Music
Music by Marco Beltrami
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Yuri Klimenko
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Alexander TerekhovWriter
- Michael KatimsWriter
- Original title
- Матильда
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 25, 2017
- Original language
- Russian
- Budget
- $25M
- Countries
- Russia
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Cast
Michalina OlszańskaMatilda Kschessinska
Lars EidingerNicolas II
Luise WolframAlexandra Feodorovna
Danila KozlovskyVorontsov
Ingeborga DapkūnaitėMaria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Sergey GarmashAlexandre III
Evgeny MironovIvan Karlovich
Grigoriy DobryginGrand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
Galina TyuninaMaria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir
Vitaliy KovalenkoVladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke
Vitaly KishchenkoVlasov, head of detective police
Thomas OstermeierFishel, psychiatrist
Sarah SternPierina Legnani
Irina Lerman
Yang GeKawakami, massage therapist
Aleksandra Serebryakovaballerina
Konstantin ZheldinPobedonostsev
Roman Chaliapindirector's assistant
Olesya Smirnova-Martsinkevich- Roman Alexeev
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