Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
(1981)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 49 votes
Year: 1981
Runtime: 152 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Элем Климов
Cast: Алексей Петренко, Анатолий Ромашин, Леонид Броневой, Алиса Фрейндлих, Юрий Катин-Ярцев, Михаил Светин, Велта Лине, Анатолий Солоницын, Сергей Карнович-Валуа, Александр Романцов
Plot
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.