CATHERINE THE GREAT SERIES
HIRES PHOEBE FOX AS COURTIER
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| Phoebe Fox will be Catherine's right hand lady |
Although most of the attention is on Sky and HBO's
Catherine the Great series with
Helen Mirren, let us not forget that Hulu is also preparing
THE GREAT limited series in which
Elle Fanning is supposed to play (or at least try) the famous Russian tzarina at the time when she, as a very young Prussian princess, got married to Russian prince Peter (to be played by
Nicholas Hoult) although she will mostly detest him later on, throw him over and kill him in the end. The latest name to join the cast is
Phoebe Fox who will play her court lady Marial. Catherine and Peter's explosive relationship, filled with insanity and adultery, ended up with her organizing officers who admired her (or were her sex toys) and overthrowing him just six month after he took the throne from his aunt Empress Elizabeth. Actors
Sacha Dhawan and
Charity Wakefield have also been cast in unspecified roles!
'KING PETAR I' TRAILER
FORGOTTEN TRAGEDIES OF WW1
Speaking of epic projects, first, deeply moving, trailer has been released for Serbian war epic
KING PETAR I which, out next month in Serbia, depicts the tragic and heroic retreat of weakened Serbian army in 1915, after German,
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| The movie will be turned into TV series later on |
Austro Hungarian and Bulgarian armies invaded the kingdom from all sides following Serbia's heroic efforts to stop the enemy in successful battles at Cer and Kolubara which were some of the first major battles of WW1 but have cost Serbia around 170,000 people even before the exodus. The Serbian army, lead by Serbian King Petar I (
Lazar Ristovski), retreated through the frozen mountains of Albania in order to save its remains. During the long march, some 240,000 retreating Serbs died from the cold, starvation, disease and combat with Albanian tribesmen. The survivors who managed to get to the Greek island of Corfu
either died there from weakness, hunger, wounds and illnesses, (which is why Serbs call the sea around the
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| The
film also follows a Serbian mother who asks the king to take warm socks
she knitted to her young son who is lost somewhere among hundreds of
thousands of retreating soldiers. The king finds him too late, already
frozen somewhere along the way but will ask to be buried in those very
socks years later after his own death |
island the Blue Tomb as the island is small and the dead had to be thrown into the sea, thousands of them) or moved to the Greek front where they will join the fights again. French and British allies sent ships to save the survivors only after Russian Emperor threatened that he would leave the war if they don't help Serbs.
