Assassin of the Tsar
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Watch assassin of the tsar Movies2Watch. 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, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
- Genre: History, Drama
- Country: Soviet Union, United Kingdom
- Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
- Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Malcolm McDowell, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Olga Antonova, Anzhela Ptashuk, Yevgeniya Kryukova, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Natalya Kishova, Givi Tokhadze, Yuri Belyayev, Albina Skarga, Venyamin Smekhov, Andrey Kharybin, Anton Tabakov, Pavel Kornakov, Igor Maslov, Vera Romanova,
