Catherine the Great (TV movie)

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Catherine the Great
DVD cover, featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky John Goldsmith
Written by	John Goldsmith Frank Tudisco
Starring	Catherine Zeta-Jones
Music by	Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography	Elemér Ragályi
Editing by	Petra von Oelffen
Release date(s)	1995
Running time	100 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

Catherine the Great is a 1995 television movie based on the life of Catherine II of Russia. It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine and Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth.

The film was released on Region 1 DVD on February 27, 2001 by A&E Home Video.

1 Opening line
2 Plot summary
3 Cast
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Opening line

“	The 21st of August 1745 ... my wedding day. I was 15. The Grand Duke Peter was two years older, and we were both pawns in a political game.	”
	— Catherine Zeta-Jones, Catherine the Great^[1]

[edit] Plot summary

From the Internet Movie Database:

In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's unexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive son and heir of the Russian czarina Elisabeth, from whom she learns the cynical ropes of wielding absolute imperial power at any cost ... After Elisabeth's death, she quickly moves to seize power with military and courtier support and works to enlarge and modernize the empire...^[2]