Plot Summary:Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.
Claire • Love has nothing to do with royalty
I heard the title at the begining of the movie, and i knew nothing about this woman. In the end, th...abrasar • 可以看看
这个电影服装道具演员都不错，当时是因为喜欢凯瑟琳*泽塔琼斯才看的，她在里面的造型很惊艳，演技也不错，表现了女王的聪明睿智。但感觉体现历史的场面不够宏大，关于叶卡捷琳娜二世称帝以后的风流韵事刻画的不深....