Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

Name: Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1981-09-01
Duration: 142 min
Cast: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Leonid Bronevoy, Alisa Freyndlikh, Yuri Katin-Yartsev

Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.

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.

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Released 1981-09-01 · 142 min · History, Drama

Directed by Elem Klimov

Cast

Aleksey Petrenko as Rasputin
Anatoliy Romashin as Nicholas II
Leonid Bronevoy as Manasevich-Manuilov
Alisa Freyndlikh as Vyrubova
Yuri Katin-Yartsev as Purishkevich
Mikhail Svetin as Terekhov
Velta Līne as Aleksandra Fyodorovna
Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Colonel
Sergei Karnovich-Valua as Russian General
Aleksandr Romantsov as Yusupov
Pavel Pankov as Manus
Nelli Pshyonnaya as baroness
Aleksey Vanin as legatee's educator
Lyudmila Polyakova as Paraskeva, Rasputin's wife
Olga Grigoryeva as holy fool lady (uncredited)