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📊 Film Specifications

Director Karen Shakhnazarov

Writer Aleksandr Borodyanskiy (Writer), Karen Shakhnazarov (Writer)

Original Title Цареубийца

Release Date October 2, 1991

Runtime 98 min (1h 38m)

Country Soviet Union, United Kingdom

Language RU

Budget N/A

Box Office N/A

Studios Mosfilm • Spectator Entertainment International

Assassin of the Tsar (1991)

Name: Assassin of the Tsar
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1991-10-02
Rating: 2.8

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov

• Written by Aleksandr Borodyanskiy , Karen Shakhnazarov

"Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it."

⭐ 2.8 / 5 (31 votes) ⏱️ 98 min 🎬 History, Drama

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'Rating Consensus & Critics'

Live Multi-Source

– / 5

MATCHCUT Members

– / 10

IMDb Audience

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TOMATOMETER Critics

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METASCORE Top Critics

5.6 / 10

TMDB (31)

Ratings Breakdown:

31 TMDB votes

0.5 Stars 'Community distribution populates with member logs' 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...