Assassin of the Tsar

Assassin of the Tsar (1991)

Цареубийца

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...

Date of release
1991-10-02
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
History, Drama
Director
Karen Shakhnazarov

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Yekaterinburg
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Nika Award for Best Costume Design

The Assassin of the Tsar is a 1991 Soviet historical drama film, starring Malcolm McDowell and Oleg Yankovsky. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. There are two versions. One is filmed in English which later was dubbed over the Russian actors, and one in Russian. Malcolm McDowell pretended to speak Russian in the other version and was later dubbed.

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