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.
Cast
Michalina Olszańska
Matilda Kschessinska
Lars Eidinger
Nicolas II
Luise Wolfram
Alexandra Feodorovna
Danila Kozlovsky
Vorontsov
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Sergey Garmash
Alexandre III
Evgeny Mironov
Ivan Karlovich
Grigoriy Dobrygin
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
Galina Tyunina
Maria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Vladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke
Vitaly Kishchenko
Vlasov, head of detective police
Thomas Ostermeier
Fishel, psychiatrist
Sarah Stern
Pierina Legnani
Irina Lerman
Unknown
Yang Ge
Kawakami, massage therapist
Aleksandra Serebryakova
ballerina
Konstantin Zheldin
Pobedonostsev
Roman Chaliapin
director's assistant
Olesya Smirnova-Martsinkevich
Unknown
Roman Alexeev
Unknown
Sergey Malyugov
Unknown
Stepan Pivkin
Unknown
Ekaterina Dar
Unknown
Kirill Andreev
Unknown
Sergey Korenkov
Unknown
Alina Humenuk
Unknown
Eduard Orlov
Unknown
Denis Shlenkov
Unknown
Aleksandr Udaltsov
Unknown
Lyudmila Grigorash
Unknown
Mikhail Samochko
Unknown
Crew
Alexey Uchitel
Director, Producer
Alexander Terekhov
Writer
Michael Katims
Writer
Daria Danilova
Editor
Yury Klimenko
Director of Photography
Valeriy Sevastyanov
Additional Director of Photography
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Additional Director of Photography
Konstantin Sukharkov
Assistant Director
Ilya Uchitel
Assistant Director
Elena Bystrova
Executive Producer
Filipp Pastukhov
Executive Producer
Anna Shalashina
Producer
Vladimir Vinokur
Producer
Julia Korol
Co-Producer
Kira Saksaganskaya
Co-Producer
Vera Zelinskaya
Production Design
Elena Zhukova
Production Design
Kristina Uchuvatkina
Casting Director
Natalya Titova
Casting Director
Nadezhda Vasileva
Costume Design
Olga Mikhaylova
Costume Design
Marina Lebedeva
Makeup Artist
Tamara Frid
Makeup Artist
Kirill Vasilenko
Sound Director
Alexey Gusev
VFX Supervisor
Marco Beltrami
Original Music Composer
Oleg Korytin
Stunt Coordinator
