Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Lisa, c'est magnifique !

Anna

 Great ideas here. Remember that it is a lot easier to make a younger actor age than the reverse !
Since thie "epic" is multi episode, we could take it up to, say WWII, that would allow for a lot of our older greats of the stage & screen to be in it.

Cheers,
Robert

At least we provide a lot of actors a job

Anna

Because most of them would be out of work and on the streets without us.

Besides Nicholas & Alexandra and Rasputin with Alan Rickman were there ever any other movies made about the family? (And please don't include the is she or isn't she Anastasia movies! LOL)
Angie

There have been a couple of very cheesy Rasputin movies, including the one Felix and Irina sued MGM over in the 30's. They were also in Fall of Eagles the miniseries but I was not happy with the way they were portrayed at all.

BRUCE WILLIS as Lenin
WILLIAM DEFOE as Trotsky
DEMI MOORE and CATHERINE ZETA JONES as Stana and Milista
MARILYN MANSON as Rasputin
JODIE FOSTER as Ella

Dmitri was the blond, but I think Felix had dark hair?He was fair and had big blue eyes but I thought his hair was dark. In the painting by Serov his hair was almost black, and I thought since he was a painter he had the right color since the pictures don't. But he was beautiful, and somebody pretty would have to play him:)

Making a miniseries has long been a dream of mine. I want to do it so bad. I think it would be best written by fans like us than by people with no feel for the characters.

If anyone has any infor on actual hair colors of these people let us know! Darn the black and white pictures!;)

Annie,
I think it will happen, but how soon I have no idea. The Romanovs are a very intresting topic, and a long mini series would be the only way to do the story justice. Its simply too much information for a two hour movie.

Please forgive me if I'm a little confused.  Are you saying that there will be a remake of the OLD Nicholas and Alexandra movie?  I have that one on video tape, but I can't hear it well enough to understand what is being said.  I'm deaf and hope anything new that comes out will have closed captioning.  Anyone know anything about this?

Ming

Dear Ming --

If you have a DVD player, I have some very good news for you if you want to understand the movie.  The DVD of the restored version has captioning available in six languages.  I was surprised, however, that one of these six languages was not Russian.

I was curious enough to look at the captions in Chinese and Japanese at the point where the Heir recites his little poem:

'Alexi-yay, Alexi-yay, mustn't run, mustn't play,
Mustn't jump, mustn't climb.  Must be careful all the time!'

A thousand times more difficult for me than Russian and Slavonic alphabets...

Good luck!
Elizabeth

There are some differences in the restored version on dvd. Region 1 must have more lanquages and some extra's; behind the scene's, which the dvd for region 2 lacks. Both regions have the scene's which are deleted on video.

Saw the film "Black Narcissus" an oldy from 1947 with Deborah Kerr this afternoon on tv. She's playing a nun and could be a twin sister of Ella. Just frightening to see how they look the same. It's a pity some good actors/actress are now far too old to play a role in our mini series.

Anna

Does any one know of any incidents like that which occurred during "Nicholas and Alexandra's" final scene where the performers had problems getting thru the scene?

Lydia Bellingham mentioned in an article that they had some problems with "The Romanovs a Crowned Family"

Azrael