Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Directed by Elem Klimov

With Olexy Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Leonid Bronevoy, Alisa Freyndlikh and Yuri Katin-Yartsev

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.