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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Elem Klimov released in USA on 15 november 1985 with Alissa Freindlich
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)
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Add to a movie listAgony (Russian: Агония, translit. Agoniya; U.S. theatrical/DVD title Rasputin) is a film by Elem Klimov, made c.1973-75 and released in Western and Central Europe in 1982 (USA and Soviet Union 1985), after protracted resistance from Soviet authorities. The film is notable for its rich, sometimes baroque style, its sumptuous recreation of episodes from the final year of Imperial Russia and the psychological portraits of Grigori Rasputin and the Imperial family.
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The storyline of the film follows the final months of 1916 up to the murder of Rasputin; some events have been telescoped into this time though they actually happened earlier, during the war. Rasputin's effect on people around him is shown as almost hypnotic, and the film avoids taking a moral stance towards him—breaking not only with Soviet history but also with how he was regarded by people near the court at the time, some of whom regarded him as a debilitating figure who disgraced the monarchy and hampered the war effort.Actors
Alissa Freindlich
(Vyrubova)
Anatoli Romashin
(Nicholas II)
Velta Līne
Mikhail Svetin
(Terekhov)
Lev Lemke
(Nathanson)
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