Peter the Great (1986)
War & Politics · Drama
Overview
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Cast
- Maximilian Schell as Peter the Great
- Vanessa Redgrave as Sophia
- Omar Sharif as Prince Feodor Romodanovsky
- Trevor Howard as Sir Isaac Newton
- Laurence Olivier as King William III of Orange
- Helmut Griem as Alexander Menshikov
- Jan Niklas as Young Peter the Great
- Elke Sommer as Charlotte
- Renée Soutendijk as Anna Mons
- Ursula Andress as Athalie