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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

Drama History

Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.

Release Date: 1981, September 1
Directors: Elem Klimov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Olegar Fedoro, Alisa Freyndlikh, Boris Romanov, Georgiy Teykh, Dmitriy Orlovskiy, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Valentina Talyzina, Aleksey Petrenko, Lyudmila Polyakova, Nelli Pshyonnaya

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

monk historical figure imperial russia