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Assassin of the Tsar (1991)

★ 5.5/10 98 min History, Drama Soviet Union, United Kingdom Russian
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Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.

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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...

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Oleg Yankovskiy
Oleg Yankovskiy Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Александр Егорович
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Yuriy Sherstnyov Kozlov
Olga Antonova
Olga Antonova Tsarina Aleksandra
Anzhela Ptashuk
Anzhela Ptashuk Marina
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Yevgeniya Kryukova Princess Tatyana
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva Nurse

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