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...
Олег Янковский
as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II
Malcolm McDowell
as Timofeyev / Yurovsky
Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան
as Александр Егорович
Юрий Шерстнев
as Kozlov
Olga Antonova
as Tsarina Aleksandra
Анжелика Пташук
as Marina
Евгения Крюкова
as Princess Tatyana
Анастасия Немоляева
as Nurse
Наталья Кишова
as Officer's Girlfriend
Givi Tokhadze
as general
Юрий Беляев
as Alexander II
Albina Skarga
as
