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