Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Cast

Aleksey Petrenko

as Rasputin

Anatoliy Romashin

as Nicholas II

Leonid Bronevoy

as Manasevich-Manuilov

Alisa Freyndlikh

as Vyrubova

Yuri Katin-Yartsev

as Purishkevich

Mikhail Svetin

as Terekhov

Velta Līne

as Aleksandra Fyodorovna

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

as Colonel

Sergei Karnovich-Valua

as Russian General

Aleksandr Romantsov

as Yusupov

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