Chloe Sevigny is set to star in the period romancer "Catherine and Peter" for Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland reports Production Weekly.
The story recounts one of the great love stories of all time - Marfa Skavronska is an orphaned maid and 'battlefield whore' who falls in love with Czar Peter the Great. Incredibly the feeling is more than mutually returned, to the point the Russian emperor marries the lowly wench and the pair become a true partnership, she becoming Catherine the First who controlled the largest empire in the world.
Production is scheduled to begin this August on location in Russia, Pland and Germany.
