cast
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Michael Hordern
Narrator / Narrator (voice)
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Barry Foster
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Charles Kay
Tsar Nicholas II
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Gayle Hunnicutt
Tsarina Alexandra
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Patrick Stewart
Vladimir Lenin
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Laurence Naismith
Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary
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Griffith Jones
Hintze (uncredited) / Hintze
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Lynn Farleigh
Krupskaya / Nadezhda Krupskaya
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Marius Goring
Von Hindenburg
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Gemma Jones
Princess Vicky
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Peter Dyneley
Von Bulow
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Isla Blair
Grand Duchess Ella
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Peter Copley
Bethmann-Hollweg
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Tony Jay
Tsar Alexander III
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Denis Lill
'Fritz', Prince Frederick William
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Maurice Denham
Kaiser Wilhelm I
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Freddie Jones
Witte
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Robert Brown
Uncle Serge
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Erik Chitty
Hertling / Hertling (uncredited)
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Hugh Burden
Protopopov
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John Robinson
Muller (uncredited) / Muller
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Michael Bates
Von Ludendorff
- Eve Pearce Empress Dona / Empress Dona (uncredited)
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Curd Jürgens
Otto von Bismarck
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Sandor Elès
Count Andrassy
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Roger Hammond
Albrecht
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Vernon Dobtcheff
Count Stookau
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Nora Swinburne
Katharina Schratt
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Jan Francis
Kschessinska
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Ed Devereaux
Purtales
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Bruce Purchase
Von Plehve
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Kenneth Colley
Father Gapon
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John Stratton
Doctor
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Geoffrey Toone
Groener
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Pamela Brown
Archduchess Sophia
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Emrys James
Count Taaffe
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Miriam Margolyes
Anna Vyrubova
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Edward Wilson
Martov
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Michael Bryant
Ratchkowsky
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Peter Vaughan
Izvolsky
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Miles Anderson
Young Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary
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Frank Thornton
Prince Albert
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James Cossins
Count Josi Hoyos
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John Welsh
Archbishop
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Derek Francis
Edward VII of England
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T. P. McKenna
Count Conrad von Hotzendorf
- Hetty Baynes Grand Duchess Tatiana
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Diane Keen
Young 'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
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Andrew Keir
Wickham Steed
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Charles Gray
Rodzianko
- Mary Wimbush Zasulich
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Rachel Gurney
'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
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Kevin Stoney
Father John
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John Turner
Prince Mirsky
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Frank Middlemass
Stolypin
- Jay Neill Heller
- Alix Crista Mounia
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Frederick Jaeger
Holstein
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Olaf Pooley
Police President Baron Krauss
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Michael Kitchen
Trotsky
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Peter Woodthorpe
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
- John Barcroft Eulenberg
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Basil Henson
Von Moltke
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Michael Sheard
Losehek
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George Merritt
Ketterl
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Colin Baker
Crown Prince Willie
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David Neal
Baltazzi
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Paul Eddington
Plekhanov
- Alan Hockey Doctor
- John Moffatt Aehrenthal
- Neville Barber Count Paar
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John Quarmby
Lamsdorf
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John Bennett
Georges Clemenceau
- Nigel Stock General Alexiev
- Ursula Howells Empress Maria Fyodorovna
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Jenny Till
Mounia
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John Nightingale
Cousin Serge
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Michael Aldridge
Rasputin
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Rosalie Crutchley
Miehen, the Grand Duchess Vladimir
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Barbara Keogh
Vara
- Pippa Vickers Grand Duchess Anastasia
- Martha Nairn Grand Duchess Olga
- Prue Clarke Grand Duchess Maria
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John Phillips
Grand Duke Nicholas
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Frank Mills
A.F. Trepov
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David McKail
Mackenzie
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Michael Gough
Helphand
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Tom Conti
Glazkov
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Jim Norton
Kerensky
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Malcolm Terris
Bronsky
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David Collings
Miliukov
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Esmond Knight
General Ruzski
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John Rhys-Davies
Zinoviev
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Colin Jeavons
Printer
- Jon Croft Sergeant (uncredited)
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Laurence Hardy
Prince Max (uncredited)