Film
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
SU- Director
- Elem Klimov
- Year
- 1981
Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.
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.
Top cast
Aleksey Petrenko
Rasputin
Anatoliy Romashin
Nicholas II
Leonid Bronevoy
Manasevich-Manuilov
Alisa Freyndlikh
Vyrubova
Yuri Katin-Yartsev
Purishkevich
Mikhail Svetin
Terekhov
Velta Līne
Aleksandra Fyodorovna
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Colonel
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Russian General
Aleksandr Romantsov
Yusupov
Pavel Pankov
Manus
Nelli Pshyonnaya
baroness
Aleksey Vanin
legatee's educator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Paraskeva, Rasputin's wife
Olga Grigoryeva
holy fool lady (uncredited)
Boris Romanov
Balashov
Aleksandr Pavlov
Sukhotin
Vladimir Osenev
Sturmer
Directed by
Elem Klimov
Written by
Ilya Nusinov, Semyon Lungin
