Nicholas and Alexandra

Selfish and racist notions from the Queen Mother (Irene Worth) before the Czar (Michael Jayston), Czarina (Janet Suzman) and Grand Duke (Harry Andrews) meet the new monk Rasputin (Tom Baker) in Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971.

Tender early sequence, 1904, as Nicholas Romanov, the last Russian czar (Michael Jayston), learns he has a son, and discusses names with the Czarina (Janet Suzman) in director Franklin J. Schaffner's Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971.

Laurence Olivier (in his barely-recognizable period, as "Count Witte"), with the Grand Duke (Harry Andrews), reasons with the Czar (Michael Jayston) about Korea, in Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971.

The imperial composure is threatened when the Czar (Michael Jayston) and Czarina (Janet Suzman), busy blessing soldiers, learn their hemophiliac son is bleeding, in Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971.

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), the story of Russia's last czar, Nicolas II, and his ill-fated family.