The Assassin of the Tsar
The Assassin of the Tsar | |
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Aleksandr Borodyansky Karen Shakhnazarov | |
Starring | Oleg Yankovsky Malcolm McDowell Armen Dzhigarkhanyan |
Cinematography | Nikolay Nemolyaev |
Music by | Vladislav Shut John Altman |
Production company | Mosfilm (USSR) |
Release date | 1991 (1993 in UK) |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Countries | Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Language | Russian (English) |
Budget | £3.37 million[1] |
The Assassin of the Tsar (
historical drama film, starring Malcolm McDowell and Oleg Yankovsky. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
There are two versions. One is filmed in English which later was dubbed over the Russian actors, and one in Russian. Malcolm McDowell pretended to speak Russian in the other version and was later dubbed.
Plot
Timofeyev (
Tsar Nicholas II in 1918. Doctor Smirnov (Oleg Yankovsky
) decides to apply a peculiar therapeutic method on him, but things go in an unexpected way.
A good portion of the film depicts the last days of the Russian Imperial Family in
Tsar Nicholas II
by Dr. Smirnov (Yankovsky). Other members of the family function merely as background, with few or no lines.
Cast
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Malcolm McDowell — Timofeyev / Yakov Yurovsky
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan — Alexander Yegorovich, Smirnov's superior
- Olga Antonova — Empress Alexandra
- Dariya Majorova — Olga Nikolaevna
- Evgeniya Kryukova — Tatiana Nikolaevna
- Maria Nikolaevna
- Olga Borisova — Anastasia Nikolaevna
- Aleksei Logunov — Alexei Nikolaevich
- Yury Belyayev — Alexander II of Russia
- Anastasiya Nemolyaeva — nurse
- Anzhelika Ptashuk — Marina, Smirnov's mate
See also
References
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 19.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Assassin of the Tsar". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
External links
- The Assassin of the Tsar at IMDb
- Watch The Assassin of the Tsar online at official Mosfilm site (English-language version)