The untitled film, financed by a Kremlin-backed fund, will tell the story of Mathilde Kschessinska, a mistress to the last Russian tsar described by producers as "the ultimate femme fatale." By Georg ...

While he didn’t make the schlep to Cannes this year, writer-director Paul Schrader has some skin in the Cannes game. He’s announced that he’s writing an English-language biopic of Kschessinska, the ...

This film by acclaimed director, Alexey Uchitel, has divided Russia. On one side are conservative Orthodox believers, headed by Natalia Poklonskaya, a former Crimean prosecutor and current State Duma ...

Paul Schrader, writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has signed to write a drama about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina and mistress to the last Russian tsar, in a ground-breaking ...

Glamorous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was Nicholas II’s mistress, and admitted to becoming pregnant but she lost the child when a horse drawn sleigh overturned Ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska ...

Kommersant A Russian TV series devoted to the tragic love affair between Tsar Nicholas II and ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska has been chosen to compete at an international TV contest in Cannes. The ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Paul Schrader, writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has signed to write a drama about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina and mistress to the last Russian tsar, in ...

In today’s International Newswire, the director of the controversial Russian film ‘Mathilde’ pushes forward with his follow-up projects, A&E puts more focus on producing local content, and Women and ...

A secret diary has revealed that Russia's last Tsar got a teenage girl pregnant during an illicit love affair. Glamorous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was Nicholas II’s mistress before he wed German ...