1991 • NR • 1h 38m
5.8/10
(20 users) 
Overview
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiariti 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...
5.8/10
(20 users) Cast / Crew 
Oleg Yankovskiy Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II 
Malcolm McDowell Timofeyev / Yurovsky 
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Александр Егорович 
Yuriy Sherstnyov Kozlov 
Olga Antonova Tsarina Aleksandra 
Anzhela Ptashuk Marina 
Yevgeniya Kryukova Princess Tatyana 
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva Nurse 
Natalya Kishova Officer's Girlfriend 
Givi Tokhadze general 
Yuri Belyayev Alexander II 
Albina Skarga 
Venyamin Smekhov 
Andrey Kharybin Vladimir Ilich Lenin 
Anton Tabakov mental patient (uncredited) 
Karen Shakhnazarov Director 
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy Writer Karen Shakhnazarov Writer Lyudmila Kusakova Production Design 
Aleksandr Petrov Set Designer Benjamin Brahms Executive Producer Christopher Gawor Producer Erik Waisberg Producer Anthony Sloman Producer Alexander Moody Associate Producer 
Vladimir Dostal Executive Producer 
Nikolay Nemolyaev Director of Photography Vladislav Shut Original Music Composer 
John Altman Original Music Composer Lidiya Milioti Editor
Oleg Yankovskiy Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II Malcolm McDowell Timofeyev / Yurovsky Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Александр Егорович Yuriy Sherstnyov Kozlov Olga Antonova Tsarina Aleksandra Anzhela Ptashuk Marina Yevgeniya Kryukova Princess Tatyana Anastasiya Nemolyaeva Nurse Natalya Kishova Officer's Girlfriend Givi Tokhadze general Yuri Belyayev Alexander II Albina Skarga Venyamin Smekhov Andrey Kharybin Vladimir Ilich Lenin Anton Tabakov mental patient (uncredited) Karen Shakhnazarov Director Aleksandr Borodyanskiy Writer Karen Shakhnazarov Writer Lyudmila Kusakova Production Design Aleksandr Petrov Set Designer Benjamin Brahms Executive Producer Christopher Gawor Producer Erik Waisberg Producer Anthony Sloman Producer Alexander Moody Associate Producer Vladimir Dostal Executive Producer Nikolay Nemolyaev Director of Photography Vladislav Shut Original Music Composer John Altman Original Music Composer Lidiya Milioti Editor
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