Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That NBC's trouble-plagued Peter the Great actually made it to the screen is close to a miracle; that it turns out to be another of TV's pretty but plodding historical sagas is less surprising. With its lavish sets (including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard...
...filmmakers would have done better to record their own turbulent drama. It began in 1982, when Producer Lawrence Schiller (The Executioner's Song) hatched the idea of doing a TV version of Robert K. Massie's critically acclaimed 1980 biography of Peter. After lengthy negotiations, Schiller gained Kremlin approval to film in the U.S.S.R.--the first independent American production ever to do so. Schiller is proud of the 130-page agreement he hammered out with the Soviets, who sought but did not receive script approval. "I badgered them constantly," he says, into "a treaty that stood the test...
...with his wife and five children. Then, last June, he learned that Publisher Malcolm Forbes paid $1.76 million for a Faberge with a crowing rooster inside. The purchase gave Forbes eleven Imperial Faberges, making his the largest collection in the world--one ahead of the Armoury Museum in the Kremlin. Aryeh, hoping that his egg could fetch an equally royal bid, decided to put it on the block at Christie's in Manhattan...
...international affairs specialists from Harvard briefed President Reagan in Washington before his Geneva summit talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Adam B. Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes prepared the President for his first face-to-face meeting with the Kremlin...
Many viewers, including moviegoers in the Kremlin, criticized the pictures as jingoistic and excessively violent...