Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great is a 1995 television movie based on the life of Catherine II of Russia. It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine, Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth and Omar Sharif as Alexis Razumovsky. Plot A young German Princess (Catherine Zeta-Jones) marries the immature future Tsar Peter III (Hannes Jaenicke). She gradually becomes a skillful politician and rises to become Catherine the Great after she overthrows her husband to embrace her Russian future. Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine Paul McGann as Potemkin Ian Richardson as Vorontzov Brian Blessed as Bestuzhev John Rhys-Davies as Pugachev Craig McLachlan as Saltykov Hannes Jaenicke as Peter Agnès Soral as Countess Bruce Mark McGann as Orlov Karl Johnson as Sheshkovsky Stephen McGann as Alexis Orlov Veronica Ferres as Vorontsova Mel Ferrer as Patriarch Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Omar Sharif as Razumovsky Tim McInnerny as Mad Monk Horst Frank as Schwerin Vernon Dobtcheff as Naryshkin Christoph Waltz as Mirovich