Assassin of The Tsar

– A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiariti..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 38 Minutes
Release Year:
1991
Original Name:
Цареубийца
Assassin of the Tsar (1991) - Also known as Цареубийца

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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Release Date:

01 Oct 1993

Language:

Russian, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
NOT RATED

Director:

Karen Shakhnazarov

Writer:

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov

Main Actors:

Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov

Plot:

A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell.

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.0/10