CinemaOSMovie · 1991 · 1h 38m

Assassin of the Tsar

Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.

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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...

Directed byKaren Shakhnazarov

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 38m
Language
RU
Released
October 2, 1991
Studios
MosfilmSpectator Entertainment International

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10 credited
Starring
Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Yankovsky

Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell

Timofeyev / Yurovsky

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Александр Егорович

Yuriy Sherstnyov

Yuriy Sherstnyov

Kozlov

Olga Antonova

Olga Antonova

Tsarina Aleksandra

Anzhela Ptashuk

Anzhela Ptashuk

Marina

Yevgeniya Kryukova

Yevgeniya Kryukova

Princess Tatyana

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Nurse

Natalya Kishova

Natalya Kishova

Officer's Girlfriend

Givi Tokhadze

Givi Tokhadze

general

Creative team
Directed by
Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Shakhnazarov
Written by
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Shakhnazarov
Produced by
Christopher Gawor
Erik Waisberg

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