Film

Assassin of the Tsar

1991 · 1h 38m · History · Drama

Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.

IMDb

6.8

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...

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)

Pavel Kornakov

• Karen ShakhnazarovDirector · Writer
• Aleksandr BorodyanskiyWriter
• Christopher GaworProducer
• Erik WaisbergProducer
• Anthony SlomanProducer
• Benjamin BrahmsExecutive Producer
• Vladimir DostalExecutive Producer
• Nikolay NemolyaevDirector of Photography
• Vladislav ShutOriginal Music Composer
• John AltmanOriginal Music Composer

Assassin of the Tsar Trailer

Release date

October 2, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

15+

Genres

History, Drama

• 

  Lenin in Paris

  1981

• 

  Patch Adams

  1998

• 

  Nobody Leaves Alive

  2024

• 

  Glass

  2019

• 

  Bottle Rocket

  1996

• 

  Bird

  1988

• 

  I Live in Fear

  1955

• 

  Reds

  1981

• 

  Stonegate

  2025

• 

  The Russian Revolution

  2017

• 

  Titicut Follies

  1967

• 

  Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

  2016