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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)
Directed by Elem Klimov
“Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.”
History, Drama · 2h 22m
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.
Cast
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
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Aleksandr Romantsov
Yusupov
Pavel Pankov
Manus
Nelli Pshyonnaya
baroness
Crew
- Director
- Elem Klimov
- Writer
- Ilya Nusinov, Semyon Lungin
- Director of Photography
- Leonid Kalashnikov
- Original Music Composer
- Alfred Schnittke
- Editor
- Valeriya Belova
Details
- Original title
- Агония
- Release date
- 1981-09-01
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm