The Great

Created by Tony McNamara · USA/UK · 55 min avg

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An irreverent, darkly comic dramatization of Catherine the Great’s rise to power. Elle Fanning plays a woman who refuses to accept the diminished role assigned to her. A brilliant portrait of a woman seizing agency in a world designed to deny it.

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