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The Reigning Beauty of the Screen!
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Drama, History, Romance - 1934
The Scarlet Empress
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7.7
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During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Director:
,
Josef von Sternberg
Cast:
,
C. Aubrey Smith
,
Marlene Dietrich
,
Gavin Gordon
,
Sam Jaffe
,
John Lodge
,
Louise Dresser
,
Erville Alderson
,
Olive Tell
,
Davison Clark
,
Ruthelma Stevens

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Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
9 May 1934
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$900,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The film tells the story of Catherine the Great as a bizarre visual extravaganza, combining twisted sexuality and bold bawdy humor as if Mel Brooks had collaborated with the Marquis de Sade.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Jan 2006
fresh:
The decor and costumes, and the mise-en-scene that deploys them, have never been equaled for expressionist intensity.
– Tony Rayns,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Running a solid hundred minutes, the film first shocks and stimulates the imagination, and then, lacking the dramatic skill to refresh its audiences, becomes steadily duller.
– Andre Sennwald,
New York Times,
8 Aug 2006
fresh:
Josef von Sternberg becomes so enamoured of the pomp and flash values that he subjugates everything else to them. That he succeeds as well as he does is a tribute to his artistic genius and his amazingly vital sense of photogenic values.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Josef von Sternberg's 1934 film turns the legend of Catherine the Great into a study of sexuality sadistically repressed and reborn as politics, thus anticipating Bertolucci by three decades.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
20 Aug 2014
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