Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Synopsis

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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Cast

Aleksey Petrenko

Rasputin

Anatoliy Romashin

Nicholas II

Leonid Bronevoy

Manasevich-Manuilov

Alisa Freyndlikh

Vyrubova

Yuri Katin-Yartsev

Purishkevich

Mikhail Svetin

Terekhov

Velta Līne

Aleksandra Fyodorovna

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Colonel

Sergei Karnovich-Valua

Russian General

Aleksandr Romantsov

Yusupov

Pavel Pankov

Manus

Nelli Pshyonnaya

baroness

Aleksey Vanin

legatee's educator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Paraskeva, Rasputin's wife

Olga Grigoryeva

holy fool lady (uncredited)

Boris Romanov

Balashov

Aleksandr Pavlov

Sukhotin

Vladimir Osenev

Sturmer

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

Rasputin's lady

Olegar Fedoro

officer

Crew

Art

• Shavkat Abdusalamov Production Design
• Sergey Voronkov Production Design

Camera

• Leonid Kalashnikov Director of Photography
• Vladimir Odintsov Additional Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Tatyana Vadetskaya Costume Design
• Vladimir Yakovlev Makeup Artist
• Валентина Бочарова Makeup Artist

Directing

• Elem Klimov Director
• Valeriya Rublyova Assistant Director

Editing

• Valeriya Belova Editor

Production

• Semyon Kutikov Executive Producer

Sound

• Alfred Schnittke Original Music Composer
• Boris Vengerovsky Sound

Writing

• Ilya Nusinov Writer
• Semyon Lungin Writer

Photos