Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)
Agoniya
Monk. Heretic. Messiah. Madman.
104 min
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.
- Release date
- July 21, 1981
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Aleksey Petrenko as Grigori Rasputin
- Anatoliy Romashin as Nicholas II
- Leonid Bronevoy as Manasevich-Manuilov
- Alisa Freyndlikh as Vyrubova
- Yuriy Katin-Yartsev as Purishkevich
- Mikhail Svetin as Terekhov
- Velta Line as Aleksandra Fyodorovna
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Colonel
- 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 Grigoreva as holy fool lady (uncredited)
- Boris Romanov as Balashov
- Vladimir Osenev as Sturmer
- Mikaela Drozdovskaya as Rasputin's lady
- Olegar Fedoro as officer
- Boris Ivanov as doctor Lazovert
- Aleksandr Kalyagin as narrator (voice)
- Panteleymon Krymov as valet
- Lev Lemke as Nathanson
- Dmitriy Orlovskiy as Rasputin's villager
- Anatoliy Ravikovich as supplicant
- Valentina Talyzina as Aglaya Akilina
- Georgiy Teykh as Rubinstein
- Mikhail Danilov as Andronnikov
Crew
- Elem Klimov · Director
- Semyon Lungin · Writer
- Ilya Nusinov · Writer
- Alfred Schnittke · Composer
- Leonid Kalashnikov · Cinematographer
- Valeriya Belova · Editor
- Shavkat Abdusalamov · Production designer
- Sergey Voronkov · Production designer