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Assassin of the Tzar DVD A Cár gyilkosa (Цареубийца) / Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov / Starring: Oleg Yankovsky, Malcolm McDowell, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
UPC 5999554701479
MADE IN HUNGARY
REGION 2 PAL DVD
AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0
SUBTITLES: Hungarian
Total Runtime: 104 minutes
English Summary:
The Assassin of the Tsar (Russian: Цареубийца, romanized: Tsareubiytsa) is a 1991 Soviet drama film, starring Malcolm McDowell and Oleg Yankovsky.
Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918. Doctor Smirnov (Oleg Yankovsky) decides to apply a peculiar therapeutic method on him, but things go in an unexpected way.
A good portion of the film depicts the last days of the Russian Imperial Family in Yekaterinburg, largely narrated by Timofyev's voice-over from the perspective of Yakov Yurovsky, the chief guard and ultimately executioner of the family. In the scenes, Yurovsky is impersonated by Timofyev (McDowell) and Tsar Nicholas II by Dr. Smirnov (Yankovsky). Other members of the family function merely as background, with few or no lines.
Hungarian Summary:
Timofejev, az elmegyógyintézet egyik ápoltja meg van győződve róla, hogy ő az, aki 1918-ban II. Miklós cárt és családját meggyilkolta. Megpróbálja meggyőzni orvosát, hogy meggyógyult, de az nem hisz neki. Mindketten az egykori gyilkosság helyszínére utaznak, hogy rekonstruálják a gyilkosságot...
Cast / Szereplők:
- Oleg Yankovsky — Dr.Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
- Malcolm McDowell — Timofyev / Yakov Yurovsky
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan — Alexander Yegorovich, Smirnov's superior
- Olga Antonova — Empress Alexandra
- Dariya Majorova — Olga Nikolaevna
- Evgeniya Kryukova — Tatiana Nikolaevna
- Alyona Teremizova — Maria Nikolaevna
- Olga Borisova — Anastasia Nikolaevna
- Aleksei Logunov — Alexei Nikolaevich
- Yury Belyayev — Alexander II of Russia
- Anastasiya Nemolyaeva — nurse
- Anzhelika Ptashuk — Marina, Smirnov's mate
Directed by | Karen Shakhnazarov |
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Written by | Aleksandr Borodyansky Karen Shakhnazarov |
Starring | Oleg Yankovsky Malcolm McDowell Armen Dzhigarkhanyan |
Music by | Vladislav Shut John Altman |
Production
company |
Mosfilm (USSR)
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Release date
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1991 (1993 in UK) |
Running time
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104 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Language | Russian (English) |