Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 103 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.