Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Aleksey PetrenkoRasputin

Anatoliy RomashinNicholas II

Leonid BronevoyManasevich-Manuilov

Alisa FreyndlikhVyrubova

Yuri Katin-YartsevPurishkevich

Mikhail SvetinTerekhov

Velta LīneAleksandra Fyodorovna

Anatoliy SolonitsynColonel

Sergei Karnovich-ValuaRussian General

Aleksandr Romantsov

Aleksandr RomantsovYusupov

Pavel PankovManus

Nelli Pshyonnayabaroness