Thank you for the link!
The documentary was quite good, I enjoyed the footage and pictures (though few were "new" and I have seen al the footage before in various other documentaries provided by Laura at her website frozentears).
However it was posing as something it is not. The proper name of the documentary should have been "Empress Alexandra the Mother". You cannot have a film about four girls, and then not even mention them in the first 30 minutes. And when they fainlly "appear", nothing is made of it, just mentioned, focus immediatelly shifting back to Alix and later Alexei. In fact, there was so little of the girls I felt disappointed. While I agree with the main thought that Alexandra was very dominant, I disagree strongly with statement like "for Alexandra one daughter was as good as the other and she treated them like homogenou mass". The girls received the same upbringing and were led to the same ideal, but a statement like this is, I believe, very tricky. Alexandra was an immenselly loving mother, even though the girls were relegated into side position by their brother, and had she indeed treated them without respect for their dissimilar personalities, they probably wouldn´t have such distinctly different personality features. Ms. Rappaport says "she often did not call them by their names", but frankly I call my newphews "the boys" all the time. Does that mean I treat them as homogenous mass? I feel Alexandra´s "negligence of the girls was severely exaggarated, as was the closeness of OTMA to Rasputin.
I was delighted to see Prince Michael of Kent!
Another downside would be the dubbing of "Imperial family". All the accents were awful - and well, inaccurate. Nicholas and Alexandra spoke perfect English, and the girls actually had Irish accent before Sydney Gibbs repaired the damage.
