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‘Blasphemous and Insulting’: Tsar Nicolas Romance Film Triggers Russian Outrage

- Oktober 24, 2017
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2017: A screening of his drama film Matilda for members of the Russian State Duma at the GUM Cinema. Artyom Geodakyan/TASS (Photo by Artyom Geodakyan\TASS via Getty Images)
The new film Matilda from director Aleksey Uchitel would appear at first glance to be a typical glamorous period drama, covering an affair between the eponymous ballerina and Tsar Nicholas II, who was ultimately executed after the Bolshevik Revolution.
 

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