Assassin of the Tsar

Assassin of the Tsar (1991)

Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.

  • Genre: History, Drama
  • Release Date: 1991-10-02
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 20 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: Pусский
  • Production Company: Mosfilm
  • Production Country: Soviet Union, United Kingdom
  • Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
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Summary

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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  • Oleg Yankovskiy

    as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
  • Malcolm McDowell

    as Timofeyev / Yurovsky
  • Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

    as Александр Егорович
  • Yuriy Sherstnyov

    as Kozlov
  • Olga Antonova

    as Tsarina Aleksandra
  • Anzhela Ptashuk

    as Marina
  • Yevgeniya Kryukova

    as Princess Tatyana
  • Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

    as Nurse
  • Natalya Kishova

    as Officer's Girlfriend
  • Givi Tokhadze

    as general
  • Yuri Belyayev

    as Alexander II
  • Albina Skarga

    as
  • Venyamin Smekhov

    as
  • Andrey Kharybin

    as Vladimir Ilich Lenin
  • Anton Tabakov

    as mental patient (uncredited)
  • Pavel Kornakov

    as
  • Igor Maslov

    as officer (uncredited)
  • Vera Romanova

    as
Art Aleksandr Petrov Set Designer
Writing Aleksandr Borodyanskiy Writer
Art Lyudmila Kusakova Production Design
Writing Karen Shakhnazarov Writer
Directing Karen Shakhnazarov Director
Production Vladimir Dostal Executive Producer
Production Benjamin Brahms Executive Producer
Production Erik Waisberg Producer
Production Anthony Sloman Producer
Production Christopher Gawor Producer
Production Alexander Moody Associate Producer
Camera Nikolay Nemolyaev Director of Photography
Sound Vladislav Shut Original Music Composer
Editing Lidiya Milioti Editor
Sound John Altman Original Music Composer
Sound Igor Mayorov Sound
Directing Larisa Makhlayeva Assistant Director
Costume & Make-Up Vera Romanova Costume Design

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