The Assassin Of The Tsar - English Version
Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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1h 44m
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 105 minutes
THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars decades earlier.
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