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Film / 1981
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Directed by
Elem Klimov
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.
The story
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 PetrenkoRasputin
Anatoliy RomashinNicholas II
Leonid BronevoyManasevich-Manuilov
Alisa FreyndlikhVyrubova
Yuri Katin-YartsevPurishkevich
Mikhail SvetinTerekhov
Velta LīneAleksandra Fyodorovna
Anatoliy SolonitsynColonel
Sergei Karnovich-ValuaRussian General
Aleksandr RomantsovYusupov
Pavel PankovManus
Nelli Pshyonnayabaroness
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Aleksey Vaninlegatee's educator
Lyudmila PolyakovaParaskeva, Rasputin's wife
Olga Grigoryevaholy fool lady (uncredited)
Boris RomanovBalashov
Aleksandr PavlovSukhotin
Vladimir OsenevSturmer
Mikaela DrozdovskayaRasputin's lady
Olegar Fedoroofficer
Sergei GolovanovPolivanov
Boris Ivanovdoctor Lazovert
Aleksandr Kalyaginnarrator (voice)
Pantelejmon Krymovvalet
Lev LemkeNathanson
Dmitriy OrlovskiyRasputin's villager
Anatoliy Ravikovichsupplicant
Valentina TalyzinaAglaya Akilina
Georgiy TeykhRubinstein
Mikhail Danilovprince Mikhail Andronnikov
Pyotr ArzhanovGoremykin
Anel Sudakevichcountess Golovina
Shavkat AbdusalamovBadmaev's assistant
Arkadiy ArkadyevRodzyanko
Natalya Antonova
Oskar Lindaccountant
Aleksandr VokachBalashov
Ivan RyzhovRasputin's villager
Eleonora Aleksandrova
Natalya BespalovaMatryona
Anatoliy Garichevfather Iakov
Nikolay Lirovlegatee
Tatyana KuznetsovaRasputin's red lady
Yevgeny Gurovemperor's valet
Afanasiy TrishkinMaklakov
Galina Nikulinasinger
Sergey Muchenikovthe grand duke Dmitriy Pavlovich
Larisa Shepitko
Baiten Omarov
Sergey SvistunovAleksey Brusilov
Alla MaykovaLidiya Nikitina
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