Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) - in Popular Culture

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  • A rather romanticised version of Alexandra's life was dramatized in the 1971 movie Nicholas and Alexandra, based on the book by the same title written by Robert Massie, in which the tsaritsa/Empress was played by Janet Suzman.
  • Rasputin and the Empress (1932), an MGM film that is less famous than the lawsuit it spawned. Alexandra was portrayed by Ethel Barrymore.
  • The highly fictionalized 1966 film Rasputin, the Mad Monk, in which Renee Asherson portrayed the Empress.
  • 1974's Fall of Eagles, a BBC series dramatizing the demise of Europe's ruling families. Alexandra, portrayed by Gayle Hunnicutt, is a prominent character in the series.
  • Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny is a 1996 HBO TV film for which Greta Scacchi won an Emmy for her portrayal of Empress Alexandra.
  • Rasputin: The Mad Monk, (1997) is a biographical documentary.
  • The Lost Prince, a BBC mini-series in which she is played by Lithuanian actress Ingeborga DapkÅ«naitÄ—.
  • The episode Love and Revolution devoted to the fall of the Romanov dynasty is featured in the Danish television A Royal Family, a series about the descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark.

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