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Fall of Eagles
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
The story
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Cast
Michael HordernNarrator · Narrator (voice)
Charles KayTsar Nicholas II
Gayle HunnicuttTsarina Alexandra
Patrick StewartVladimir Lenin
Laurence NaismithEmperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary
Griffith JonesHintze · Hintze (uncredited)
Lynn FarleighKrupskaya · Nadezhda Krupskaya
Marius GoringVon Hindenburg
Gemma JonesPrincess Vicky
Peter DyneleyVon Bulow
Isla BlairGrand Duchess Ella
Peter CopleyBethmann-Hollweg
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Tony JayTsar Alexander III
Denis Lill'Fritz', Prince Frederick William
Maurice DenhamKaiser Wilhelm I
Freddie JonesWitte
Robert BrownUncle Serge
Erik ChittyHertling (uncredited) · Hertling
Hugh BurdenProtopopov
John RobinsonMuller (uncredited) · Muller
Michael BatesVon Ludendorff
Eve PearceEmpress Dona · Empress Dona (uncredited)
Curd JürgensOtto von Bismarck
Sandor ElèsCount Andrassy
Roger HammondAlbrecht
Vernon DobtcheffCount Stookau
Nora SwinburneKatharina Schratt
Jan FrancisKschessinska
Ed DevereauxPurtales
Bruce PurchaseVon Plehve
Kenneth ColleyFather Gapon
John StrattonDoctor
Geoffrey TooneGroener
Pamela BrownArchduchess Sophia
Emrys JamesCount Taaffe
Miriam MargolyesAnna Vyrubova
Edward WilsonMartov
Michael BryantRatchkowsky
Peter VaughanIzvolsky
Miles AndersonYoung Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary
Frank ThorntonPrince Albert
James CossinsCount Josi Hoyos
John WelshArchbishop
Derek FrancisEdward VII of England
T. P. McKennaCount Conrad von Hotzendorf
Hetty BaynesGrand Duchess Tatiana
Diane KeenYoung 'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
Andrew KeirWickham Steed
Charles GrayRodzianko
Mary WimbushZasulich
Rachel Gurney'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
Kevin StoneyFather John
John TurnerPrince Mirsky
Frank MiddlemassStolypin
Jay NeillHeller
Alix CristaMounia
Frederick JaegerHolstein
Olaf PooleyPolice President Baron Krauss
Michael KitchenTrotsky
Peter WoodthorpeArchduke Franz-Ferdinand
John BarcroftEulenberg
Basil HensonVon Moltke
Michael SheardLosehek
George MerrittKetterl
Colin BakerCrown Prince Willie
David NealBaltazzi
Paul EddingtonPlekhanov
Alan HockeyDoctor
John MoffattAehrenthal
Neville BarberCount Paar
John QuarmbyLamsdorf
John BennettGeorges Clemenceau
Nigel StockGeneral Alexiev
Ursula HowellsEmpress Maria Fyodorovna
Jenny TillMounia
John NightingaleCousin Serge
Michael AldridgeRasputin
Rosalie CrutchleyMiehen, the Grand Duchess Vladimir
Barbara KeoghVara
Pippa VickersGrand Duchess Anastasia
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