Peter the Great (1922)
- Original title
- Peter der Große
- Directed by
- Dimitri Buchowetzki
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, biographical film, historical film
- Country
- Weimar Republic
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent film from 1922 about Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. It shows his life as a reformist ruler.
historicalstatelydramaticsoberbiographicalstagedslow-moving
What happens
Peter the Great (German: Peter der Große) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Emil Jannings, Bernhard Goetzke and Dagny Servaes. It depicts the life of the reformist Russian Tsar Peter the Great. It premiered in Berlin on 2 November 1922. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Dreier. Buchowetzki had previously directed Jannings in Danton (1921) and Othello (1922). Jannings later played another Russian Tsar, Paul I, in The Patriot (1928). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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