Rasputin Movie Review 1985

The long-censored and banned film of the story of the mad monk and his domination of the royal family before the Russian Revolution. Petrenko is superb. First released in the United States in 1988. In Russian with English subtitles.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 104 minutes.
Originally from Russian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

This Is Your Life, Royalty, Russian, Sanity Check, Period Piece: 20th Century, Historical Drama, Russia/USSR, Russian Revolution, Monks, Rabbi

Screenplay

Semyon Lunghin, Ilya Nusinov

Cast

Alexei Petrenko, Anatoly Romashin, Velta Linne, Alice Freindlikh

Director

Elem Klimov

Music

Alfred Shnitke

Producer

Leonid Kalashnikov