''Rasputin'' ( French: ''La Tragédie impériale'') is a 1938 French

historical film A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as ...

directed by

Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...

and starring

Harry Baur Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor, famous for his titular role in ''Beethoven's Great Love'' and as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (1934 film), the 1934 version of ''Les Misérables''. Life Initially a stage actor ...

, Marcelle Chantal and Pierre Richard-Willm.Kennedy-Karpat p.204 It depicts the rise and fall of the Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the advisor to the

Romanov The House of Romanov (also transliterated as Romanoff; , ) was the reigning dynasty, imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible, the first crowned tsar of all Russi ...

royal family. It was shot at the

Joinville Studios The Joinville Studios were a film studio in Paris which operated between 1910 and 1987. They were one of the leading French studios, with major companies such as Pathé and Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont making films there. A second studio was a ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Guy de Gastyne.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. ''Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s''. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

External links

* 1937 films 1930s historical drama films French historical drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier Films based on German novels Films set in Russia Films set in the 1910s Films scored by Darius Milhaud Films about Grigori Rasputin Biographical films about Russian royalty Cultural depictions of Nicholas II of Russia French black-and-white films 1937 drama films 1938 drama films 1938 films 1930s French films Films shot at Joinville Studios {{1930s-France-film-stub