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United Kingdom · 1971
Rated PG · 3h 9m
Director Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson
Genre Drama, History, Romance, War
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Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family during the Russian Revolution.
Old-fashioned, overlong costume epic, comfortably reactionary in its view of the Tsar Nicholas as a saint who knew not what he was doing to the Russian people, and of the revolutionaries as potential tyrants reaching hungrily for power.
Village Voice by Andrew Sarris
The sobriety of the entire enterprise is ill-suited to the lurid period in history it represents. [23 Dec 1971, p.61]
One of the best of a bad genre, Franklin J. Schaffner’s Sweeping Historical Romance manages some moderately intelligent historical observations amid its lavishly re-created period decor and the puppy-dog pathos of the two central characters (Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman).
A lengthy, visually impressive period piece with little in the way of new material or fresh spins on history to distinguish it.
The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
As obsequiously respectful as if it had been made about living monarchs who might reward the producer with a command performance. Viewers are put in the position of celebrity-lovers eager to partake of the home life of the dullest of the Czars.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The problem with "Nicholas and Alexandra" is that it considers the Russian Revolution from, in some ways, the least interesting perspective.
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
The problem with "Nicholas and Alexandra" is not inflation, but deflation, the attempt to cram too big a picture into too small a frame.
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