I made a fanvid for the first half of BBC's 1974 historical epic Fall of Eagles (tracing the fall of the three royal houses of Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia from 1848-1914).
Death Waltz
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Royals and revolutionaries dancing towards disaster.
Featuring Charles Kay (Tsar Nicholas), Patrick Stewart (Lenin), Gemma Jones (Princess Vicky), Curt Jurgens (Bismarck), Denis Lill (Fritz), Gayle Hunnicutt (Alexandra), Barry Foster (Kaiser Wilhelm II), and Diane Keen (Empress Elisabeth). With Miles Anderson (Franz Josef), Pamela Brown (Archduchess Sophia), Michael Kitchen (Trotsky), Lynn Farleigh (Nadezhda Krupskaya), Paul Eddington, Donald Gee, Freddie Jones (Witte), David Collings (Pavel Milyukov), Maurice Denham (Kaiser Wilhelm I) and Jan Francis (ballerina). Music: Tchaikovsky - Waltz, Serenade in C.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziC7B22QMWQ