Want to avoid the censor's wrath for offending the Russian Orthodox faithful? Don't suggest Russia's last tsar preferred a ballerina with a face like a "rat" to the "classic European" beauty of his ...

Both spectacular and pious, "Tsar" positions itself between Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," though without their originality and inspiration. By The ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- The Mufti's Office in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has joined a move initiated by a lawmaker and Russian Orthodox activists to prevent a romantic film about Tsar ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court ordered the detention of a man on Saturday on suspicion of trying to intimidate cinemas into not showing a new film about the country's last tsar, Russia's news ...

Alexei Uchitel’s Matilda, which depicts affair between Nicholas II and ballet dancer, has faced calls for ban from religious and conservative critics. The Russian culture ministry has cleared a film ...

Russian police on Thursday detained four people over an arson attack linked to an upcoming controversial film about tsar Nicholas II and his affair with a ballerina. Hardline conservatives have ...

The film, which depicts a romance between Nicholas II and ballerina Matilda Kschessinska before his marriage and coronation, is set for release on October 26 MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. Experts have ...

Mehring Books is pleased to announce that the definitive film documentary of the Russian Revolution, Tsar to Lenin, is now available for immediate shipment in DVD format. Tsar to Lenin is one of the ...

A WSWS reader has written in with a comment on the unique documentary film Tsar to Lenin, available from Mehring Books. It has generally been conceded by film historians that All Quiet on the Western ...