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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
"Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman."
User Score44 votes
65%6.5/10
Release1981→
Runtime2H 22M
LanguageRussian
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8

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
Media13
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Director

Elem Klimov
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Keywords
monkhistorical figureimperial russia
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