Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II (Anatoliy Romashin), mystic Grigori Rasputin (Aleksei Petrenko) holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St. Petersburg, Russia, begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot to assassinate him.
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.
| Director: | Elem Klimov |
| Cast: | Aleksei Petrenko, Lyudmila Polyakova |
