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...
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
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Oleg Yankovskiy
Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II

Malcolm McDowell
Timofeyev / Yurovsky

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Александр Егорович

Yuriy Sherstnyov
Kozlov

Olga Antonova
Tsarina Aleksandra

Anzhela Ptashuk
Marina

Yevgeniya Kryukova
Princess Tatyana

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Nurse

Natalya Kishova
Officer's Girlfriend

Givi Tokhadze
general

Yuri Belyayev
Alexander II

Albina Skarga

Venyamin Smekhov

Andrey Kharybin
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
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