Propaganda
I've heard the movie on itself is great and uses footage of that period in russian history. I've heard the Imperial Family is shown in a wrong way, totally not acurate. Alexandra Feodrovna for the matter never spoke German, the most used languages used by the Imperial Family were Russian and English, so what is it about, the empress speaking german and saying she hated Russia, and she did not hate Russia. Ofcourse for the Emperial Family and the upper class it was shocking to see their world tumbling down on them, and i've heard the Revolutionaries ar shown as the 'good' guys here, while Rasputin is shown as a 'monster' and 'mad man', but still it was not like that, so i count this as a big propaganda-movie that wants to put the monarchy in a bad light of day. But in my opinion the Sovjets were much worse than the Imperial Family, they executed several Romanov's, their servants, banned others, murdered citizens who believed in Imperial Russia, they even made sure that the wrong news was given to the world about the Imperial Family and their execution. They also banned the church as much as possible & tried to destroy anything that stood symbol for Imperial Russia and in my eyes the Sovjets just wanted power, and wanted to have it forever... They promised the people better lives, but in fact they wanted the people to live their way. That the Sovjets lost power in 1991 made sure the Romanov's had 'won' in the end, since now they are worshiped all over the world, while most people hate those who ordered their execution.
Also its strange that the Kitchen Boy of the Imperial Family Leonid Sednev died 10 years after the murder of his old masters, who died in captivety, while the guards made sure the boy got out of the house before the night of the murder... Some people even think that he was killed because what he knew about the months and weeks before the murders....