Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

Dec 10, 2016

0h 52m

★ 5.8

Overview

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

ZDF

ARTE

Florianfilm

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Cast

Herself - Narrator (voice)

Mechthild Großmann

Herself - Descendant

Laurence Huot-Solovieff

Himself - Historian

Boris Kolonitsky

Himself - Historian

Sergei Mironenko

Herself - Historian

Olga Utotschkina

Herself - Writer

Marie Turquois-Bowman

Himself - Physician

Florian Langer

Himself - Art Historian

Alexei Larionov

Herself - Hotel Manager

Yulia Pashkovskaya

Herself - Historian

Natalia Saizeva

Himself (archive footage)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

Herself (archive footage)

Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna

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