Rasputin and the Empress 1932

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• CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20257/10

  Keep it in the family was never better exemplified in a film than here with no less than three of the Barrymore clan taking on one of these historical stories that is ideal for folks with a fertile imagination. Ralph Morgan is the Czar who is married to Alexandra (Ethel) and with whom he has but the one son. The young Czarevitch (Tad Alexander) is suspected of being an haemophiliac and devoid of help from the best that medical science can provide at the start of the twentieth century, they turn their minds to the religious. That’s because the enigmatic priest Rasputin (Lionel) has obtained far more than an audience from the empress. He has convinced her that it’s faith in God that will cure their son, and that faith can only be imparted by his own good offices. Despairing and somewhat gullible, she and her weak-willed husband gradually indulge this man to the expense of those they have known and trusted for many a year - not least the devoted Prince “Chegodieff” (John) who sees through the ambitious charade of the monk, but whose protestations fall on deaf imperial ears. Moreover, with the population becoming increasingly agitated by Russia’s failures in the Great War, the Romanov

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