Rasputin and the Empress

An account of the life of Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" of Russia, during the years 1913-1918, and starring Lionel, John, and Ethel Barrymore.
Rasputin and the Empress
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 23, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1932
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 159
...Lively all the way...
USA Today
May 28, 1993
Rating: C+ -- Is memorable only because it's the one and only time that the Barrymore family appeared together on screen. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 21, 2008
Rating: 5/5 -- Splendidly stylish, often terrifying with great turns by all the Barrymores.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 6, 2003
It is a clumsy, pretentious, aimless motion picture. Full Review
Vanity Fair
Jun 4, 2019
Rating: B -- Boleslawksi's lavish production of this historical melodrama is best known today as the only film that all three Barrymores (John, Ethel and Lionel) made together. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jul 14, 2011

Description by OLDIES.com:

The year after the all-star Grand Hotel, brothers John and Lionel Barrymore teamed again in Rasputin and the Empress. Joining them in a sumptuous and stirring tale about the often-called Mad Monk who held a powerful - perhaps hypnotic - sway over World War I-era Russian royalty was the third member of the American stage's Royal Family: Ethel Barrymore, making this the lone feature with all three thespian siblings.

Intercut with footage from the actual era, the film burns with intrigue, betrayal, rivalry and the renowned trio's talents. Lionel has the plum role of Rasputin, seething with ambition and rage. "I will be Russia!" he proclaims. History shows he would not. But this movie shows he would not be forgotten.

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The story of a shrewd, ratlike dissoulte monk who plots against Russia's Romanoff Dynasty. Academy Awards Nominations: Best Original Screenplay.

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  • Sales Rank: 11,009
  • UPC: 883316126585
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