Country: URSS, USA
Year: 1991
Duration: 104
Admitted to a psychiatric hospital, Timofeyev believes he is the murderer of Tsar Alexander II, killed in 1881, and of his nephew Nicholas II, murdered with his whole family in 1918. Even the psychiatrist who treats him ends up getting involved in his storis, identifying himself with Tsar Nicholas II. A pilgrimage to Ekaterinburg will lead the doctor to death, while the patient continues his therapy in the hospital, in apparently unchanged conditions.
Biography
film director
Karen Shakhnazarov
(Russia, 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. The son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of Armenian descent, he became the Director General of Mosfilm studios in 1998, and since 2005 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. His 1987 film Courier was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won a Special Prize, and then participated at the Cannes Film Festival with The Assassin of the Tsar in 1991. His 2012 film White Tiger was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
FILMOGRAFIA
Shire shag, maestro! (cm, 1975), Na skolzkoy doroge (cm, 1977), Dobryaki (1979), My iz dzhaza (We Are from Jazz, 1983), Zimniy vecher v Gagrakh (Winter Evening in Gagra, 1985), Kuryer (The Messenger Boy, 1986), Gorod Zero (Città zero, 1988), Tsareubiytsa (L’assassino dello zar, 1991), Sny (Dreams, 1993), Amerikanskaya doch (American Daughter, 1995), Den polnoluniya (Day of the Full Moon, 1998), Yady, ili vsemirnaya istoriya otravleniy (Poisons or the World History of Poisoning, 2001), Vsadnik po imeni Smert (Un cavaliere di nome Morte, 2004), Palata N°6 (Ward Number 6, 2009), Belyy tigr (White Tiger, 2012), V okruzhenii (cm, 2012), Lyubov v SSSR (2013), Anna Karenina (serie tv, 2017), Anna Karenina. Istoriya Vronskogo (Anna Karenina. La storia di Vronskij, 2017).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Karen Shakhnazarov. SCREENPLAY: Aleksandr Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikolay Nemolyaev. FILM EDITING: Lidiya Milioti. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lyudmila Kusakova. COSTUME DESIGN: Vera Romanova. MUSIC: Vladislav Shut, John Altman. CAST: Oleg Yankovsky, Malcolm McDowell, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Olga Antonova, Dariya Majorova, Evgeniya Kryukova, Alyona Teremizova, Olga Borisova, Aleksei Logunov, Yury Belyayev, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Anzhelika Ptashuk. PRODUCERS: Christopher Gawor, Anthony Sloman, Erik Waisberg. PRODUCTION: Courier Studios, Mosfilm, Spectator Entertainment.
