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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). In Anastasia, Lynn Fontanne, Julie Harris, Robert Burr and Paul Roebling dramatize the still unanswered question of whether a young amnesia victim was really the daughter of Russia's Czar Nicholas II, executed by the Bolsheviks...
SHOSTAKOVICH: THE EXECUTION OF STEPAN RAZIN and SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Melodiya-Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...coup attempt and, though since forgiven, enjoys little rapport with the Emperor. Indeed, there are few even in the palace circle who can remember when the Emperor was Tafari Makonnen, the young regent to his empress aunt, who took the throne in 1916 when Nicholas II still reigned as Czar of Russia and Lyndon Johnson was in the fourth grade. He went on to win the world's admiration with his grave defiance of Mussolini's legions in the '30s (he was TIME'S Man of the Year in 1936), and has remained a durable symbol...
...last Russian chief of state to visit Italy arrived in danger of assassi nation, spent the entire time in a secluded castle near Turin and never even got to Rome. That was in 1909, and Czar Nicholas II had plenty to fear from the Italian left. Last week, as So viet President Nikolai Podgorny began a week-long tour of Italy, the climate was different. Italy, after all, has the West's largest Communist Party (1,541,000 members), and one Italian in four votes Communist in national elections. Podgorny's route was punctuated by a few bomb...
...French Czar. By 1957, show-business people in France had begun, not very precisely, to call Levy "the czar of French cinema." He won the title, typically, on a gamble, bringing together an unknown starlet named Bardot and a neophyte director named Vadim. And God Created Woman cost less than $400,000, but Levy plastered the world with publicity and grossed ten times that much in the U.S. alone. He made a handful of other pictures, including four more with Bardot, but he had neither the money nor the skills of a long-run mogul...