Mathilde (2017) on Netflix
NR20172h 10mBiographyDramaHistory
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya meet in 1890. His mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, presses him to end it.
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Matilda Kshesinskaya, born in Poland, dances at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. In 1890 she meets Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, the tsesarevich, when he is twenty-two and she is seventeen. The heir admires her dancing and her beauty, and the two begin a romance. The imperial family learns of it, and Russian society follows the talk. His mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, wants the affair over and tells him to remember his royal duty, while he is under pressure to marry the German princess Alix. Matilda's name is also linked with other Romanovs, among them Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mathilde (2017)
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- On 4 September 2017, an ultra-Orthodox monarchist rammed the entrance of the Cosmos cinema in Yekaterinburg, the city's largest, with a car carrying a barrel of gasoline and gas cylinders, then set it alight with a Molotov cocktail; he was detained, and a court released him as insane.
- In September 2017, Russia's biggest cinema chain, the Cinema Park and Formula Kino group, cancelled Matilda screenings because of "extreme actions by opponents of the film" and threats against cinemas, then reversed the decision. Two cars were torched outside the Moscow office of a lawyer acting for director Alexei Uchitel.
- The public movement "King's Cross" called the 2016 trailer, which included erotic love scenes, a "distortion of historical events" and an "anti-Russian and anti-religious provocation in the field of culture"; one cinema chain then pulled out after self-described Orthodox militants threatened the director and cinemas preparing to screen it.
- State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, known for her veneration of Nicholas II, asked the Prosecutor General to examine the film; its material was audited and no violations were found. Duma culture committee chairman Stanislav Govoruhin said such scandalous initiatives should be "nipped right in the bud".
- Making the film required more than 17 tons of fabric, which were turned into a total of more than 5,000 costumes.
