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Assassin of the Tsar
1991 · 1h 38m · History · Drama
Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.
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Overview
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
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Cast
Oleg Yankovskiy
Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
Malcolm McDowell
Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Александр Егорович
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Kozlov
Olga Antonova
Tsarina Aleksandra
Anzhela Ptashuk
Marina
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Princess Tatyana
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Nurse
Natalya Kishova
Officer's Girlfriend
Givi Tokhadze
general
Yuri Belyayev
Alexander II
Albina Skarga
Venyamin Smekhov
Andrey Kharybin
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Anton Tabakov
mental patient (uncredited)
Pavel Kornakov
Crew
- Karen ShakhnazarovWriter · Director
- Aleksandr BorodyanskiyWriter
- Erik WaisbergProducer
- Anthony SlomanProducer
- Christopher GaworProducer
- Vladimir DostalExecutive Producer
- Benjamin BrahmsExecutive Producer
- Nikolay NemolyaevDirector of Photography
- Vladislav ShutOriginal Music Composer
- John AltmanOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- October 2, 1991
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- 15+
- Genres
- History, Drama
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