Assassin of the Tsar
# Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.
π 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 patientβs 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...
π Languages Available:
Russian
π Date Released:
1991-10-02
β Running Time:
98 mins
β Vote Average:
5.8
Beloved Cast
Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
Oleg Yankovskiy
Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Malcolm McDowell
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Kozlov
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Tsarina Aleksandra
Olga Antonova
Marina
Anzhela Ptashuk
Princess Tatyana
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Nurse
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Officer's Girlfriend
Natalya Kishova
general
Givi Tokhadze
Alexander II
Yuri Belyayev
Albina Skarga
Venyamin Smekhov
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Andrey Kharybin
mental patient (uncredited)
Anton Tabakov
Pavel Kornakov
officer (uncredited)
Igor Maslov
Vera Romanova
