29 Aug 2000
The Man Who Cried
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Catherine the Great
Through Treachery, Passion and Courage, She Built an Empire
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine
Paul McGann Potemkin
Ian Richardson Vorontzov
Brian Blessed Bestuzhev
Christoph Waltz Mirovich
Hannes Jaenicke Peter
John Rhys-Davies Pugachev
Agnès Soral Gräfin Bruce
Veronica Ferres Vorontzova
Mel Ferrer Patriarch
Jeanne Moreau Elizabeth
Omar Sharif Razumovsky
Horst Frank Schwerin
Vernon Dobtcheff Naryshkin
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