
Assassin of the Tsar
History · Drama
Overview
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
Oleg Yankovskiy
Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II


Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell
Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Malcolm McDowell
Timofeyev / Yurovsky


Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Александр Егорович
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Александр Егорович


Yuriy Sherstnyov
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Kozlov
Yuriy Sherstnyov
Kozlov


Olga Antonova
Olga Antonova
Tsarina Aleksandra
Olga Antonova
Tsarina Aleksandra


Anzhela Ptashuk
Anzhela Ptashuk
Marina
Anzhela Ptashuk
Marina


Yevgeniya Kryukova
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Princess Tatyana
Yevgeniya Kryukova
Princess Tatyana


Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Nurse
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Nurse


Natalya Kishova
Natalya Kishova
Officer's Girlfriend
Natalya Kishova
Officer's Girlfriend


Givi Tokhadze
Givi Tokhadze
general
Givi Tokhadze
general
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