Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)
Агония
Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.
As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.
- Date of release
- 1981-09-01
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (50)
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Director
- Elem Klimov
Casting
- Aleksey Petrenko — Rasputin
- Anatoliy Romashin — Nicholas II
- Leonid Bronevoy — Manasevich-Manuilov
- Alisa Freyndlikh — Vyrubova
- Yuri Katin-Yartsev — Purishkevich
- Mikhail Svetin — Terekhov
- Velta Līne — Aleksandra Fyodorovna
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn — Colonel
- Sergei Karnovich-Valua — Russian General
- Aleksandr Romantsov — Yusupov
- Pavel Pankov — Manus
- Nelli Pshyonnaya — baroness
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