Assassin of the Tsar
6.8
“Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.”
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
18 people
Oleg Yankovsky
Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
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Malcolm McDowell
Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Known for
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Александр Егорович
Known for
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Yuriy Sherstnyov
Kozlov
Known for
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
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Olga Antonova
Tsarina Aleksandra
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The Asthenic Syndrome
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Anzhela Ptashuk
Marina
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In August of 1944
Burial of the Rats
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Princess Tatyana
Known for
My Love
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Nurse
Known for
Messenger Boy
Natalya Kishova
Officer's Girlfriend
Also in
The Devil's Puppets
Mother of Hurricane
Givi Tokhadze
general
Also in
Ugryum-River
Captain Nemo
Yuri Belyayev
Alexander II
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The Thief
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Albina Skarga
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Karen Shakhnazarov Director · Aleksandr Borodyanskiy Writer John Altman Composer
First release May 9, 1991 · Produced in Russia, United Kingdom, Russia · Production Spectator Entertainment International
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Spectator Entertainment International
Production
Russia · United Kingdom · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Цареубийца
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
France · May 9, 1991
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
Russia · October 2, 1991
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
March 30, 2009 · Digital
Poland
January 1, 2009 · Digital
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