Mathilde
Матильда
Release: 2017-10-25
·Runtime: 130m
·★ 5.8
History
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
Russia
Production Companies
TPO Rok
Cast
Lars Eidinger
as Nicolas II
Aleksandra Serebryakova
as ballerina
Olesya Smirnova-Martsinkevich
Sarah Stern
as Pierina Legnani
Roman Chaliapin
as director's assistant
Lyudmila Grigorash
Michalina Olszańska
as Matilda Kschessinska
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
as Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Sergey Garmash
as Alexandre III
Vitaliy Kovalenko
as Vladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke
Thomas Ostermeier
as Fishel, psychiatrist
Ekaterina Dar
Grigoriy Dobrygin
as Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
Sergey Malyugov
Stepan Pivkin
Galina Tyunina
as Maria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir
Vitaly Kishchenko
as Vlasov, head of detective police
Irina Lerman
Konstantin Zheldin
as Pobedonostsev
Kirill Andreev
Sergey Korenkov
Danila Kozlovsky
as Vorontsov
Yang Ge
as Kawakami, massage therapist
Alina Humenuk
Evgeny Mironov
as Ivan Karlovich
Aleksandr Udaltsov
Mikhail Samochko
Luise Wolfram
as Alexandra Feodorovna
Crew
Elena Zhukova
Production Design
Daria Danilova
Editor
Kira Saksaganskaya
Co-Producer
Marco Beltrami
Original Music Composer
Nadezhda Vasileva
Costume Design
Alexey Uchitel
Director, Producer
Yury Klimenko
Director of Photography
Vladimir Vinokur
Producer
Ilya Uchitel
Assistant Director
Filipp Pastukhov
Executive Producer