La Tragedie imperiale, Flora Film, 1938. Promotional film brochure.

La Tragedie imperiale, Flora Film, 1938.
Promotional film brochure.
[18], 38 x 27 cm. In a publisher's cover made of vellum paper with gold embossing, internal artistic tracing paper. The block falls out of the cover.
The Tragedy of the Empire (French: La Tragédie impériale) is a French film directed by Marcel L'Herbier in 1937 and released in 1938.
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal, Pierre Richard-Willm, Jean Worms, Jany Holt, Mila Parély, Jean Claudio, Alexandre Rignault, Alexandre Mihalesco, Colette Régis.
The story of the monk Grigori Rasputin: his beginnings as a "healer", his appearance at the Russian imperial court and his influence on the royal family, which contributed to the end of the Romanov dynasty, and finally his murder in 1916.