The Scarlet Empress (1934)






A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.


Vintage magazines

Filmwelt 2, 14. Januar 1934
Filmwelt 38, 23. September 1934
Filmwelt 38, 23. September 1934


Film programs

Illustrierter Film-Kurier Wien nr. 888

Books with substantial mentioning of The Scarlet Empress

George M. Wilson
Seeing fictions in film, The epistemology of movies
Oxford; New York, 2011

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Sybil DelGaudio
Dressing the Part, Sternberg, Dietrich, and Costume
London and Toronto, 1993

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Jean-Pierre Frimbois
Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique
Alleur (Belgique), 1989

Homer Dickens
The Films of Marlene Dietrich
New York, 1968

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Scarlet Empress

David Thompson, Von Sternberg - Six Chapters in Search of an Author, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 2010 pp. 38-41