text: Steven Berkoff as Pankratov Ian Holm as Yakovlev
  Alan Webb as Yurovsky
  Leon Lissek as Avadeyev
  David Giles as Goloshchyokin
  Other characters
  Roy Dotrice as General Alexeiev
  Martin Potter as Prince Yusupov
  Richard Warwick as Grand Duke Dmitry
  Vernon Dobtcheff as Dr. de Lazovert
  Alexander Knox as The American Ambassador
  Ralph Neville as The British Ambassador
  George Rigaud as The French Ambassador
  Curt Jürgens as The German Consul
  Julian Glover as Gapon
  John Shrapnel as Petya
  Diana Quick as Sonya
  John Forbes-Robertson as Colonel Voikov
  Alan Dalton as Flautist
  David Baxter as Young Bolshevik
  Peggy Sugg as Young Opera Singer
  Production
  Development
  Producer Spiegel tackled Nicholas and Alexandra when he was shut out from working with director David Lean on Doctor Zhivago, which was also set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia. Spiegel had alienated Lean when the two worked together on the film Lawrence of Arabia, pressing the perfectionist director in order to get the movie finished on time.
  Spiegel initially tried to make Nicholas and Alexandra without buying the rights to the book by Robert K. Massie, claiming that the historical account was in public domain but, eventually, Spiegel purchased the rights for $150,000. He hired writer James Goldman to adapt Massie's book as a screenplay. Goldman had written the popular play and film The Lion in Winter.