FIRST EMPRESSES TRAILER
Earlier this spring I showed you exclusive first images of wildly gorgeous Yuliya Peresild as empress Elizabeth of Russia. The images were from theupcoming new historical movie THE EMPRESSES (Императрицы) directed and penned by famous Andrey Kravchuk who previously gave us glorious epic movies The Admiral, Viking, Union of Salvation and Peter I: The Last Tsar (with
this film effectively being the sequel or a continuation of that one) and today we have the first trailer as well which you can check out below.
As you know Elisabeth or Elizaveta was the daughter of Peter the Great,
but it took her almost two decades to inherit her father's throne as the
period after his death was marked by a long turmoil which saw four
people ruling Russia, among them three women, including Elisabeth's
mother Catherine I who was the first ever empress of Russia. After
ascending
to the throne finally in 1741 at the age of 33, Elisabeth
ruled the vast empire for almost two decades and was then succeeded by her daughter in law Catherine the Great. Scheduled to premiere on October 26th, the film also stars Ivan Kolesnikov as Peter I, Igor Gordin, Anna Ukolova as empress Anna, Eduard Orlov, Kseniya Utehina as Catherine I and others.
FILM ON RUSSIAN FEMALE RULERS!
| The Movie is out in cinemas this October |
| Yuliya Peresild as Elizabeth of Russia |
THE STORY OF THE FILM
After the death of legendary Peter the Great, the era of palace coups begins - a
time of constant intrigue and a struggle for power. Little Elizabeth already
knows that the world is not a wish-granting factory. She is not
destined to become the queen of France, because after the death of Peter I,
Louis XV breaks all past agreements. And for the throne of the Russian
Empire there is a real struggle, and no one even jokingly considers the
candidacy of the young princess. The movie will show how the empire
changed along with the change of heads of state. Why did it turn out to
be an impossible task for many to continue the work of Peter I? What
price will Elizabeth Petrovna, the youngest daughter of the great
monarch, have to pay to take her place in history? And what can a woman
on the throne give Russia? The title of the film is in plural because
it will also cover the rule of Catherine I (Kseniya Utekhina) and Anna
Ivanovna. After the rule of Peter the Great, Russia was ruled for 70
years by women, even though before him there were no females at the
throne. Stay tuned as I will be covering more international period set
projects in the upcoming weeks.
