Assassin of the Tsar — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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, d…

Cast & Crew

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov

• Oleg Yankovskiy
  as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
• Malcolm McDowell
  as Timofeyev / Yurovsky
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
  as Александр Егорович
• Yuriy Sherstnyov
  as Kozlov
• Olga Antonova
  as Tsarina Aleksandra
• Anzhela Ptashuk
  as Marina

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