Summary Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death. View more details
Directed : Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy
Written : Sada Cowan Ludwig Metzger-Hollands
Stars : Bernhard Goetzke Emil Jannings Dagny Servaes Cordy Millowitsch
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Jan 29, 1923
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German None
Production companies : Europäische Film-Allianz
Summary Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death. View more details
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Jan 29, 1923
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German None
Production companies : Europäische Film-Allianz
