Haven't watched Ekaterina, but I did see the British miniseries about young Catherine starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, in which Maximilian Schell gets to play an older than he actually was Fritz scheming in the background. (Fresh from playing the older Peter the Great, I assume. Now Schell was a good actor, but what amuses me is that he was also distinctly Austrian, with an Austrian accent. How about that, Fritz?)
(That miniseries also had Catherine's advisor being the British ambassador to Moswow, for no other reason than a British series needed to have a sympathetic Brit somewhere, I assume.)
Now, both of these are movies rather than tv shows, but I'd fail my movie buff credentials if I didn't point out two famous German acting performances as Catherine. Marlene Dietrich famously played Catherine in "The Scarlet Empress" for Josef von Sternberg, and Käthe Dorsch played her in the original Münchhausen, where she has a fling with our titular hero the lying baron (or so he says), both of them enjoying themselves thoroughly. What's so unusual about the later is that this movie was made in 1944, in Germany, and positive presentations of Russians, including Prussians-turned-Russians who were also political masterminds owning their female sexuality, were otherwise impossible. And yet. The script for Münchhausen was written by Erich "Emil and the Detectives" Kästner, who wasn't allowed to publish under his own name at the time, was probably the only German writer to see his books burned in front of him at the infamous book burning of 1933, and wrote the script under the alias of "Berthold Bürger" (Berthold Citizen).
Mein Name ist Bach: and, what do you think of Jürgen Vogel as Fritz so far? If you find the time, pray share those thoughts and feelings?
re: your Alexander/Joan of Arc RPF with the numbers filed off, was there any particular reason why Alexander? Were you interested in Russia, or was it that he was the best looking prince available in the era? (That's what Napoleon thought, anyway, who said he'd marry Alex if Alex was a woman.)
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Date: 2019-10-05 08:30 am (UTC)(That miniseries also had Catherine's advisor being the British ambassador to Moswow, for no other reason than a British series needed to have a sympathetic Brit somewhere, I assume.)
Now, both of these are movies rather than tv shows, but I'd fail my movie buff credentials if I didn't point out two famous German acting performances as Catherine. Marlene Dietrich famously played Catherine in "The Scarlet Empress" for Josef von Sternberg, and Käthe Dorsch played her in the original Münchhausen, where she has a fling with our titular hero the lying baron (or so he says), both of them enjoying themselves thoroughly. What's so unusual about the later is that this movie was made in 1944, in Germany, and positive presentations of Russians, including Prussians-turned-Russians who were also political masterminds owning their female sexuality, were otherwise impossible. And yet. The script for Münchhausen was written by Erich "Emil and the Detectives" Kästner, who wasn't allowed to publish under his own name at the time, was probably the only German writer to see his books burned in front of him at the infamous book burning of 1933, and wrote the script under the alias of "Berthold Bürger" (Berthold Citizen).
Mein Name ist Bach: and, what do you think of Jürgen Vogel as Fritz so far? If you find the time, pray share those thoughts and feelings?
re: your Alexander/Joan of Arc RPF with the numbers filed off, was there any particular reason why Alexander? Were you interested in Russia, or was it that he was the best looking prince available in the era? (That's what Napoleon thought, anyway, who said he'd marry Alex if Alex was a woman.)