Fall of the Romanovs is a 1939 American film directed by John Hellund and produced and distributed by George K. Schwartz and Marty Manicoff of Pacific Print Studios, and based on the 1935 bestselling novel of the same name. The film was set in Imperial Russia between 1809 and 1813 and concerns the Romanov dynasty's eventual fall at the hands of Napoleon I and his armies during the 1813 French conquest of Russia, told exclusively from the Russian perspective. The film starred Richard Jeremies as Tsar Alexander, Olivia Lawrence as Tsarina Elizabeth Alexeievna, Clark Gable as Archduke Nikolai, Fred Simmons as Archduke Constantine, Vic Astell as Field Marshal Kutuzov, and Jennifer Melas as the scheming Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, who opposed peace with Napoleon to the bitter end.