Catherine the Great[videorecording] /HBO Miniseries presents ; in association with Sky ; a New Pictures/Origin Pictures production ; producer, Jules Hussey ; written by Nigel Williams ; directed by Philip Martin.

2 videodiscs (229 minutes) :sound, colour ;4 3/4 inches

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.

Title from container.

Disc 1.Episode one --Episode two.

Disc 2.Episode three --Episode four.

Costume designer, Maja Meschede ; composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams ; editor, Stuart Gazzard (episode 1, 3), Selina Macarthur (episodes 2, 4) ; production, Tom Burton ; director of photography, Stuart Howell.

Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Gina Mckee, Kevin Mcnally, Joseph Quinn, Clive Russell, Richard Roxburgh, Rory Kinnear.

Helen Mirren stars as Catherine the Great, as the brilliant monarch who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the eighteenth century. This limited series charts Catherine's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea. It also chronicles the passionate love affair between Catherine and Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin.

14A.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

For private home use only.

Audio track in English, captions in English.

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