The Assassin of the Tsar

The Assassin of the Tsar
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
Written by Aleksandr Borodyansky
Karen Shakhnazarov
Starring Oleg Yankovsky
Malcolm McDowell
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Music by Vladislav Shut
John Altman
Production
company
Mosfilm (USSR)
Release dates
1991 (1993 in UK)
Running time
98 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian (English)

The Assassin of the Tsar (Russian: Цареубийца, Tsareubiytsa) is a 1991 Russian film. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[1] There are two versions. One is filmed in English which later was dubbed over the Russian actors, and one in Russian. Malcolm McDowell pretended to speak Russian in the other version and was later dubbed.

Plot

Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.

Cast

See also

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: The Assassin of the Tsar". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.

External links


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