Assassin of the Tsar ( Tsareubiytsa )

Assassin of the Tsar (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tsareubiytsa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Karen Shakhnazarov

Written By:
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Karen Shakhnazarov

Actors:
Malcolm McDowell ..... Timofeyev
Yurovsky ..... Dr. Smirnov /
Oleg Yankovskiy ..... Aleksandr Yegorovich
Tsar Nicholas II ..... Kozlov
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan ..... Marina
Yuriy Sherstnyov ..... Vojkov
Anzhela Ptashuk ..... Tsarina Aleksandra
Viktor Seferov ..... Princess Olga
Olga Antonova ..... Princess Tatyana
Dariya Majorova ..... Princess Mariya
Yevgeniya Kryukova ..... Princess Anastasiya
Alyona Teremizova ..... Nurse
Olga Borisova ..... Prince Aleksei
Anastasiya Nemolyayeva ..... Dr. Botkin
Aleksei Logunov ..... Medvedev
Vyacheslav Vdovin
Vyacheslav Mukhov

Synopsis:

Malcolm McDowell, with shock-white hair and a death-mask visage, delivers a powerful and intense performance in this British/Russian co-production, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov - and also starring popular Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky. McDowell plays a schizophrenic patient in a Russian hospital named Timofeyev who is convinced that he was Yakov Yurovsky, the man who executed Tsar Nicholas II and the royal family during the Russian Revolution in 1918. Timofeyev tries to convince the doctors that he is cured of his delusions, but a new doctor, Smirnov (Oleg Yankovsky), thinks that there is something hidden beneath the surface of Timofeyev's delusions that has yet to be revealed. Smironov becomes as obsessive as Timofeyev in attempting to uncover the truth of the assassination. When Smironov travels to Sverdlovsk, where the Tsar was killed in 1918, he and Timofeyev both proceed to re-live the tragic murders.

A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell.

A doctor in an insane asylum becomes fascinated with a patient, who although supposedly cured of his belief that he is the assassin of Czar Nicholas II, appears to know more than he should about the murder.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 11 November, 2010.

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