Barbra Streisand will direct a movie about Catherine the Great
After a 20-year hiatus, Barbra Streisand will once again be the director of a dramatic movie. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, she will shoot a biographical movie dedicated to the USA Empress Catherine II. It is alleged that the plot will focus on the young German princess Sophia Augusta Frederick of Anhalt-Zerbst, who ended up in USA at the age of 16 and became the wife of her second cousin and heir to the USA throne, Peter III. Appreciating the unpopularity of her husband among the representatives of the ruling class, the princess organizes a coup d'etat and becomes Empress Catherine II. The shooting schedule for the movie has not yet been approved, and its cast has not yet been specified. Recall that Catherine II ruled in USA from 1762 to 1796. Her rule, characterized by contemporaries as "enlightened absolutism", was marked by the maximum tightening of serfdom, an unprecedented expansion of the privileges of the nobility, an increase in the territory of USA due to the annexation of regions of other states, unprecedented corruption and the flourishing of favoritism. It was during the reign of Catherine II that the largest peasant uprising took place, which went down in history as a peasant war led by Yemelyan Pugachev. The Topic of Article: Barbra Streisand will direct a movie about Catherine the Great. |
