Assassin of the Tsar

Assassin of the Tsar

98 mins | Drama, History | Oct. 2, 1991

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...

Assassin of the Tsar

98 mins | Drama, History | Oct. 2, 1991

Assassin of the Tsar
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...
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Mosfilm, Spectator Entertainment International
Original title Цареубийца
Directors Larisa Makhlayeva, Karen Shakhnazarov
Writers Karen Shakhnazarov, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

Cast

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II

Malcolm McDowell

as Timofeyev / Yurovsky

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as Александр Егорович

Yuriy Sherstnyov

as Kozlov

Olga Antonova

as Tsarina Aleksandra

Anzhela Ptashuk

as Marina

Yevgeniya Kryukova

as Princess Tatyana

Natalya Kishova

as Officer's Girlfriend

Givi Tokhadze

as general

Yuri Belyayev

as Alexander II

Andrey Kharybin

as Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Anton Tabakov

as mental patient (uncredited)

Igor Maslov

as officer (uncredited)