Assassin of the Tsar

Oct 2, 1991

1h 38m

★ 5.7

Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.

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 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...

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Spectator Entertainment International

Assassin of the Tsar Trailers

Cast

Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II

Oleg Yankovskiy

Timofeyev / Yurovsky

Malcolm McDowell

Александр Егорович

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

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