Assassin of the Tsar
Tsareubiytsa
1991, Film, 104 min, Drama, History, Russian, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 62
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...
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast
- Malcolm McDowell as Yurovsky
- Oleg Yankovskiy as Tsar Nicholas II
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Aleksandr Yegorovich
- Yuriy Sherstnyov as Kozlov
- Anzhela Ptashuk as Marina
- Viktor Seferov as Vojkov
- Olga Antonova as Tsarina Aleksandra
- Dariya Majorova as Princess Olga
- Evgeniya Kryukova as Princess Tatyana
- Alyona Teremizova as Princess Mariya
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