Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Name: Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Director: Elem Klimov
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1981-09-01
Duration: 2 h 22 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Leonid Bronevoy, Alisa Freyndlikh, Yuri Katin-Yartsev

Directed by Elem Klimov

History

Drama

19812h 22m6.6

Overview

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.