""The first revolution, and the counter-revolutionary period which followed it (1907-1914) laid bare the true nature of the czarist monarchy, pushed it to its limits, and exposed the rottenness, the corruption, the cynicism and the debauchery among the Czar's followers," "with the monstrous Rasputin leading the pack..."" "V.I. Lenin "Letters from Exile"" "MOSFILM" "Second Artists' Association" "Russia" "The Russian Empire is a vast territory straddling Europe and Asia." "A land of 170 million inhabitants, the largest monarchy in the world." "An agricultural country, with industry only moderately developed." "A country of great poets, writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries." "A country where two-thirds of the population is illiterate." "A country of enormous social contrasts, where bureaucracy and censorship are omnipresent, where the authorities stifle human rights." "The First World War has revealed the patent bankruptcy of government and accentuated its weaknesses and internal contradictions." "Crushing military defeats have caused the loss of Poland," "Lithuania, parts of Latvia and Byelorussia." "The army was almost out of ammunition." "A severe fuel shortage paralyzed transport." "All attempts to solve the food crisis came to nothing." "The black market flourished." "Speculation, corruption, wasting of public funds were rampant." "The foreign debt climbed to 51 billion gold rubles." "Russia owed money to France, England, the United States, Belgium, and many other countries." "Russia's economic independence was at stake and her political independence seriously compromised." "The situation was critical." "Russia was about to experience an upheaval that would affect not only her history, but that of the entire world." "Written by Semyon LUNGIN and Ilya NUSINOV" "Directed by Elem KLIMOV" "Director of Photography Leonid KALASHNIKOV" "Production Designers:" "Shavkat ABDUSALIMOV, Sergey VORONKOV" "Music by Alfred SCHNITTKE Sound by Boris VENGEROVSKY" "Conductor Eri KLAS" "Starring" "Alexei PETRENKO" "Anatoly ROMASHIN" "Velta LINE Alissa FREINDLIKH" "AGONY" "Russia. 1916" "I'm ready to take any punishment if Your Majesty should be displeased with me." "I trust my painting won't inhibit your ideas." "If I'm overstepping my position, you just have to say one word, and I shall resign my post as President of the Duma." "What's this all about, Mikhail Vladimirovich?" "The best of Mother Russia's sons, elected deputies of the Duma, representing all of the Guberniyas..." "Put it simply, if you please." "Your Majesty, it is for your own safety." "We're on the eve of the events, the result of which we can't foresee." "What the government, and you personally, are doing is enraging the citizens to such an extent, that anything is possible." "The Lord will arrange it all." "Please allow me to doubt that." "And another thing." "You've got to get rid of him." "Of whom?" "In the name of the patriots who pray for the well-being of the crown," "I beg you to chase him out." "The influence he has gained over your august family over affairs of state..." " Now wait over the clergy..." "You may tell those patriots that the private life of my family is my own concern." "I'm afraid that's where you're wrong, Your Majesty." "Disgusting." "Disgusting." "These masterpieces are being exhibited in the provinces, too, and to the army!" "My people love me." "Russia's reigning House of Romanov." "The Romanov aristocratic family dates back to the 13th century, when a certain Lithuanian nobleman, Glanda Kambilla, after taking upon baptism the name of Ivan, came to Russia." "His son, Andrei Kobyla, had five sons of his own:" "Semyon Zherebets, Alexander Yolka, Vassily Ivantai," "Gavrila Gavsha and Fyodor Koshka, from whom were to come Russia's 17 ruling families." "The first Russian czar of the Romanov dynasty was Mikhail Fyodorovich, who came to the throne in 1613." "The seventeenth and last Romanov czar was Nicholas II." "He was born in 1868." "His father was Alexander III." "His mother, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, who in Russia took the name of Marie Fyodorovna." "He was privately tutored at the palace." "In 1894, he married the German Princess Alix of Hesse, who became the Czarina Alexandra Fyodorovna." "Nicholas II succeeded to the throne in 1894." "The coronation festivities were marred by the Khodynka, a bloody trampling on people in Khodynka meadow in Moscow." "In the course of its 300-year history, the Romanov dynasty had survived many upheavals:" "the peasant insurrections led by Razin and Pugachev, the Decembrist uprising, the Narodnaya Volya movement, and the revolution of 1905." "However, never before had the future looked so ominous for the royal family." "Nothing short of a miracle could save the situation." "I. F. Manassevitch-Manouilov" ""Manouilo", "Vanka Cain", journalist" "I.L. Goremykin, Prime Minister" "A.A. Vyrubova, friend of the Imperial family" "You think there's no way the project can go through?" "It was hopeless to start with." "A million rubles, all for a whim!" "It would mean to bring the railroad to the spring." "If Mr. Voyeikov wants to provision his troops with mineral water, he'd better transport it at his own expense." "What kind of attitude is that?" "Do we measure patriotism in rubles?" "I don't know, Ivan Fyodorovich." "But it's a miracle!" "A spring suddenly appeared out of nowhere!" "Russian mineral water "Kouvaka"!" "It cures anything!" " Oh, come on!" " That's really so!" "Yesterday Chaliapin was singing Mephistopheles, and..." "It'd make the soldiers a lot happier to think their country had done it." " No, no, and no, Ivan Fyodorovich!" " To spend a million rubles!" " The way things are at the moment." " I'm not sure..." "Grigory Efimovich promised the general..." "Here's the general now." "Do you mean that Grigory Efimovich has drunk the water?" "He has and approved of it!" "Ivan Loginovich!" "My dear, you know of my high regard for Grigory Efimovich!" "You mustn't criticize a man of the God." "Mineral water!" "The soldiers are starving!" "They need bread!" "Man doesn't live by bread alone!" " Oh, forget it." " What do you mean, forget?" "Rather than pillage poor Mother Russia, pity her!" "You're the one who should pity her." "It would help you to run her better!" "Ivan Loginovich, I'm losing my faith in you." "There is no faith any more!" "Not in anything, nor in anyone!" "Leave me alone!" "Speaking." "Listen to your cough, you old walrus!" "It must be God's punishment for your greed, you old hippo!" "Who is this?" "Clean out your ears, they've been blocked up." " Grigory Efimovich?" " You recognized me, didn't you?" "I already said that it won't work out!" "A million rubles, all for nothing!" "You want a bigger slice of the cake, is that it?" "Do you know it's past four o'clock now, Mr. Rasputin?" "You've got no right to disturb me at this time!" "You have no right to talk to me in this manner!" "Cry old nanny-goat!" "Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, alias Novykh." "Born in 1868 in the village of Pokrovskaya in the district of Tyumen, in Tobolsk Guberniya." "No known signs of insanity in his family." "Nicknamed "Snotnose" by his boyfriends." "Started drinking at the age of 15." "Mixed-up in brawls and scandals, involved in illegal assemblies of a sect called "The Flagellants"." "Twice convicted and sentenced to be whipped." "At the age of 27, suddenly became an itinerant preacher, calling himself the "Holy Starets"." "Visited many monasteries in Siberia and Central Russia and made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Jerusalem." "By the turn of the century, rumors about the Siberian prophet and faith-healer reached the capital, and he soon appeared there himself." "He was welcomed into the salons of the aristocracy, and it wasn't long before he was received at the Imperial palace." "Within a short time, Rasputin acquired tremendous influence." "In the past, numerous prophets, clairvoyants, hypnotists, healers, believers in the occult, all had their place in court circles." "They usually turned up in times of trouble, in years of spiritual or ideological crisis." "But never before in Russia's history had any one person held as much influence as Grigory Rasputin." "What will tomorrow bring?" "Show us Your Way, O Lord." "How many thorns litter the crooked path of life..." "I have the figures, Your Majesty:" "In the year 1915," "I received 928 reports of strikes." "That's almost a thousand, Your Majesty." "More than half a million people participated in these strikes." " And the exact figure?" " 589,528 people." "A.N. Khvostov, Minister of the Interior" "At least 213 strikes were proven to have been politically inspired." "How do you mean?" " Well, Khvostov?" " Do you wish me to tell the truth?" "It's revolution, Your Majesty." "How lightly you use this word." "Not at all lightly, Ivan Loginovich." "Only we must suppress these actions, and do it rapidly..." "Men must be punished if they disobey, harsher censorship must be imposed, all revolutionaries must be tried, especially the Bolsheviks!" "The Duma has to be dissolved now!" "It's time for making decisions, Your Majesty!" "The country is boiling over, Your Majesty." "However, all these measures will only precipitate disaster..." "We must pacify people." "The stick, always the stick." "We have to make some concessions." "Mercy and tolerance, that's what we need." "We have to maneuver, but wisely." "Of course, this is not the rebellion of 1905, but the situation's grave." "But on one point I agree - you have to make your decision." "A.A. Polivanov, Minister of War" "During military operations at the Riga beachhead, soldiers of the 2nd Siberian Division refused to engage in combat." " Instigated by the Bolsheviks!" " And what did you do?" " Had them shot, Your Majesty." " Very wise." "The division was pulled out of action." "By court-martial decree, twenty four soldiers were executed." "Two million men have been taken prisoner by the enemy." "Nearly a million and a half have already deserted." "And these figures seem to be growing worse with every day." "Down our village road Thoma's riding on a goat." "Lyoshka's straddled a stray cat, There he goes, the spoiled brat." "Thoma, where do you go?" "Stop there, Thoma, whoa, whoa!" "Leave it alone!" "Nicky!" "The crisis is past!" "Oh, thank you, Holy Father!" "Thank you for coming to us from your distant Siberia." "You heeded our plea and rekindled our hope." "For you are the people, and the people know the truth!" "You are our Savior, show us the One True Way, light up the path to righteousness, help us in our misery..." "God help us to survive it!" "What's that?" "The moral decline, the degradation!" "Ah, Goremykin, Goremykin!" "To accept bribes..." "and from whom?" "The ninth of" "January," "1905" "Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov" "The Khodynka. 1896 1,389 dead:" "trampled and crushed." "1,300 more seriously hurt." "Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905" "More than 400,000 dead, wounded or missing." "The 1905-1907 Revolution: 65,830 executed or tortured to death." "The Lena Massacre, 1912:" "Over 500 people shot." "World War I:" "From 1914 to 1915," "Russia had over 3 million dead, wounded, or missing in action." "I.P. Manus, millionaire" " I don't want to." " You're completely drunk." "You'll get twenty times your money back in a year." "What am I saying, a year!" "Are we spilling our blood for nothing?" "In three months at the most." "D.L. Rubinstein, banker" "Prince M.M. Andronnikov, known as "Bug-Prince", "Beggar"" " Impossible to approach him." " Say his presence'd be an honor." "I'm scared of him." "You'd rather be at the front?" "You won't regret it." "This is the chance of a lifetime!" "A landowner from Minsk badly needs cash." "He owns more than a thousand acres of forest in Baranovitchi." "And two thousand acres of farmland!" "I'm still not interested!" "Well, that's your decision." "If you say so." " I'll give them to Dmitry Lvovich." " I'll take them." "I promised to someone else." " Give the papers back!" " No, damn it, you won't get them!" "Grigory Efimovich, you've been invited to Room 8." "His Excellency" "Minister of Interior, Mr. Khvostov, and His Highness Prince Andronnikov are dining there." "Do you want to be sent to trenches?" "Grigory Efimovich, blessed Father, I beg you..." "They've ordered me." ""Bring him or else..." they said." "I've got a family:" "a wife and three kids." "And a mother too, old and ill." "Think what will they do to me?" "What are you waiting for?" "Send away the girl and go!" "Don't you see, the man is weeping?" "And a good man, too." "Varya, go to your friends." "Do you hear me, my good soul?" " Where do we go?" " I'll bring you to the door." "You just try to stand up, Grigory Efimovich." "It's a secret meeting, isn't it?" "We must creep quietly." "Please, Grigory Efimovich." "Your Highness?" "He's on his way." " How much farther is it?" " Right down there." "This way, Grigory Efimovich." "Bless our dinner, Grigory Efimovich." "I can smell that the soup is good." "Bless the Holy Spirit that lives within us, now and ever and unto ages of ages!" "Amen!" "Please accept this as a token of our respect and in recognition of your arduous work." "How about some Madeira?" "Mine was excellent the other day, but this would make an angel cry." "Why did you do that?" "I meant to please you." "Soon you will all burn in hell." "We don't count." "The Czar does." "And his son, the heir." "We're worried about them." "Russia needs an iron fist." "And Goremykin didn't fill the bill." "What's the use of discussing him now?" "Mother Russia appreciates your intervention." "Now the crucial question is:" "who is going to take up the reins of government?" "The next Prime Minister must be a specialist, a man who is well-acquainted with our domestic problems." "All the troubles come from within." "We're faced with mutiny, revolution." "Would it not be logical to appoint the man who has held the post of Minister of the Interior?" "Two men meet on Nevsky Prospect." "One of them says:" ""Yesterday I saw you at the Opera with my mistress."" ""My dear sir," the other says, "that was my wife."" "Aren't you pleased with yourself?" " Are you crazy?" "Let me go!" " I've got to have you!" " Let go of me!" " I saw you and I wanted you!" "Scoundrel!" "L.V. Nikitina, lady-in-waiting, daughter of Commandant of the Fortress of Peter and Paul" "Editorial office?" "This is Nathanson." "Take this down for a front-page special." "Scandal in a restaurant!" "Baroness N. has been assaulted." "The husband rushes to her defense!" "That colonel hit Grigory Efimovich right in the face!" " Arrest him immediately!" " Which one?" "Yes, sir!" "Follow me!" "Holy Father!" "Blessed savior, I've been looking for you." " Mama has sewn it..." " Come on, quick..." " Our Czarina herself." "...away from this debauchery." "Brute!" "I'm going to kill you!" "Let me go!" "Scoundrel!" "I'll kill you, bastard!" "Clear the way!" "All that work for nothing." " She stole him, didn't she?" " You bet." "Boris Vladimirovich Sturmer, Court Chamberlain, member of the State Council, owner of numerous estates" "Progressing paralysis and euphoria." "The squirrels have taken over upstairs?" "Exactly." "Dubious morals, has a mistress." "Who?" "Not this one, I hope?" "Greedy, obstinate, ambitious, loves power." "Who doesn't?" "In our troubled times, when there's no faith, those who are at the wheel of the ship" "should first of all perceive with their heart the very essence of Russian autocracy." "To fathom Russia with your mind A futile task: no yardstick so pure." "Her might is of a special kind." "Have faith in Russia, that'll endure." "What do you think, Grigory Efimovich?" "I don't understand a thing." "But go on, go on." "The Slavs don't think with the mind but with the spirit, with the inner being, which is the natural source of our strength." "The Czar has maintained his popularity because he recognizes it..." " Sturmer, who are you?" " What?" " Who are you?" " What do you mean?" " German?" " God forbid." " A hundred percent Russian." " You go to church?" "Yes, Grigory Efimovich, wait..." "See?" "My cross..." "The cowl doesn't make the monk." " I don't follow you." " Never mind." "Go on." "Our strength lies in the alliance between the people and the monarchy." "Thus we can resist the dangerous alien intrusion." "The invasion of foreign ideals weaken our national purity in exactly the same way as the desire for money weakens the spirit of humanity." " Boris!" " Yes?" "You planning to dip into the till?" "Lord in His Grace has cast His blessings on our nation by placing just one step from the throne a wise and prudent advisor, a man of the peasantry who has the intelligence Of all hope bereft." "In the steppe out of the way" "A coachman was freezing to death." "Mustering up his strength" "Before his final rest..." "To his comrade..." "To his comrade he" "Passed his last behest." "Dear comrade of mine..." "Don't bear..." "Don't bear a grudge," "Here, in this steppe," "Bury me and not judge." "Say to my dear wife A word of farewell." "Give her my wedding ring, For her to remember me well." "Hey, old man?" "What do you want?" "Want to be Prime Minister?" "You've got it." "But remember: a single error, and it'll be your funeral!" "F.F. Yussoupov, Prince, Count Soumarokov-Elston" "Concentrate on the navel area." "Exhale and contract the stomach." "Now inhale, with your diaphragm relaxed..." "Breathe deeply, ladies and gentlemen..." "There's no part of our body that..." "Dmitry Pavlovich, Grand Duke" " What are you doing here, Felix?" " I came to say goodbye." " I'll be leaving very shortly." " Where to?" "I might go to France or England." "Or Rome." " For how long?" " For good." "P.A. Badmayev, "Owl", "Rotten", Tibetan physician" "Yesterday, at a gallery we ran into "Holy Father"." "He took one look at Irina and went berserk." "Do you understand?" "We had left immediately." "The minute we walked in the house, we were told he had called twice." ""My dear, why did you take your wife away?" "When shall I meet her?"" "I think I'm going mad." "I talked with the Czar the other day." "They close their ears to anything said against their saintly Grigory." "You'll notice that our peasants never have lung diseases." "I hope the war will be over soon." "I'll be off to the country and I'll sleep in a stable!" "Dmitry, we need to make a decision." "Breathe deeply, ladies and gentlemen." "That will mean blood." "His is the devil's blood." "When it flows, it'll be green." " Who will do it?" " There are good people in Russia." "M.M. Sukhotin, Lieutenant" "Now, the breathing exercise known as "The Crow"." "We bring the cripples back to life." "Join the workshop of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna." " The water is boiling." " Remove it from the fire." "Sasha, dear..." " Who is she, all dressed up?" " It's the Baroness." "Oh, that's her husband who punched our Holy Saint!" "She's to see the Holy Father." "He has been warned." "He's busy." "All the garbage that walks in here..." " I love my husband so much..." " I love my husband too." "There's no sin in that, my dear." "You are going to save your husband, and be purified, too." "Give the bearer of this a job..." "Needs salt." "That will do it." " Thank you, our benefactor!" " The Lord bless you." "Please, excuse me, may I get through?" "Ah, Vanya, good to see you." "How is our friend Khvostov?" " Angry." "Spit on him, and he sizzles." " He'll cool down." "He may arrange to have you summoned before the Duma." "We don't need summons." " Grigory Efimovich, if you would..." " Can't you see he's busy?" "Go away!" "Why?" "Why should he go first?" "I've been here since Tuesday." "Here's my number." "What number?" "Beat it!" "Beat it before I send you to the trenches!" "All of you, out!" "You with the baby, you can stay." "The rest of you sing!" "You'll be called later." "There's one thing you might do." "You've got plenty of influence." "See to it that the Emperor appears before the Duma." "Why the devil would I get him mixed up with those vultures?" "You want to neutralize the Duma, don't you?" "Holy Father, she's on the phone again." "She's singing..." "What's your name, my little nightingale?" "Keeps singing..." "Calls up and sings." "Or else she asks if I'll come to her." "But she won't tell me her name." "All right." "Submit, you whore!" "Protect me, Lord!" "The Satan!" "You dare come here naked?" "Is my house a brothel?" "Write!" "God is love!" "Hatred is death!" "Hallelujah!" "Why are you tormenting the bird?" "Give it here!" "Sleep." "It's sleeping." "Are you free now?" " What?" " Get out!" "Her Imperial Majesty is on the telephone." "Mama!" "May the Lord keep you." "Holy Father, you wanted to speak to me?" "Has something happened?" "What?" "I'm so frightened." "Tell me." "A dream I dreamt last night." "A long road." "And in the middle of it a nest and six big eggs ready to hatch out." "And among the eggs sat the Duma." "With a golden halo all around." "Papa came up the road, very reluctantly." "Around his head there was a halo, too" " And those halos joined together." " What?" "And as they joined a white dove flew out." "But the Duma is filled with our enemies!" "It must be a sign sent by God to guide us." "Only what is His Divine meaning?" "My humble brain is bewildered." "I'm in the dark." "Bless you, Mama." "I'll be praying." "He will come." "List of Deputies of the Duma" "There are 19 parties listed here." "And I'm sure there're others not on the list." " What are we to do with them?" " They've all sprung up in 10 years." "We're the ones who let it happen." " Are they calling strikes?" " Not all of them." " They will, give them time." " The Lord protect us." "Now then... yes..." "Mama promised to give 50,000 to Zamyslovsky for his newspaper." "It's not a huge sum, but he swears his editorials will be favorable." "I've met this Zamyslovsky, he's a crook." "He sings the praises of other crooks." "You want to be in that boat?" " Mama gave her word." " Break it." "Tell her I had a vision." " Why are you frowning?" " My leg." "Come on, relax for a while." "There's no one to see you here." "Limp as much as you want." "I've got here a list of certain men" "Badmayev will try to put on the Council of State." "Wily old owl." "He's been busy." "Who is he pushing?" " Izmailov." " May the Lord take him soon." "Chagodayev." "He'd be safer in some commercial post." "Ivan Ivanovich Korf." "We'll accept that one." "He's a thief, but one of us." " And Nikitenko." " Scum!" "He'd murder his mother for a song." "But he's useful." "That means we've got two:" "Korf and Nikitenko." "How do we convince Papa?" "Tell him: "Grigory says God has ordained it."" "Why do you look so foxy?" "What's the matter now?" "I was watching you when you spoke with Mama on the telephone." "Halos joining together..." "Joining together, not joining together..." "What's the difference?" "So the dream was a lie." "But Papa did come to the Duma." "And he's no worse off, either." "They say he wept a few tears there." "And that way we stopped nasty rumors that're going around." "That's one good thing." "There's been too much talk about me." "Papa is afraid of his own shadow!" "He does what Mama says, and Mama acts like a blind person." "She will follow you anywhere you lead." " We lead her together." " I'm frightened, Grigory." "Afraid of falling, eh?" "It's a long fall from where we are." "You'd get a lot worse than a crooked leg." "I'm afraid of losing Mama." "I hope she'll never lose faith in you." "Have you?" "Pay her a visit." "Comfort her." "If I go to the palace too often, the stairway'll start squeaking." "The Grand Dukes gather like flies to honey, eager to push you away." "Let them try." "You've got to go there." "Do something mystical." "You're good at it." " Asking for a miracle, aren't you?" " I'm not asking for anything." "You're a liar!" "You want a miracle!" "Everyone wants one!" "The spookier you make it the better they like it." "Put it up your ass!" "As long as I'm here, you're here!" "But when I'm not here, who will be the one to blame?" "I see the pit of Hell, yet I go on." "I smell sulfur, and still I go on!" "The Grand Dukes are willing to pay me millions if I go away." "And those offered me 250,000, damn them!" "Go to hell, all of you!" "I'll go, don't worry." "I'll go just the way I came, with a sack on my shoulder." "I despise your filthy city." "I want to see flowers and trees." "And you can all wallow in your stink!" "I put a dozen of underwear in the drawers, and they steal them all!" "Get out!" "You go too!" "And you?" "Is the Lord within your soul right this second?" "Yes." "I am I, Grigory." "You're with me." "We will walk together." "Until the end!" "Yes." "Please excuse me..." "Do we accept the ripped money?" "We do!" "We'll accept anything!" "Down with the Czar!" "Long live the Republic!" "Never had the gulf between the power and the people been so great." "Time had run out for a peaceful solution." "Now it was up to the people to decide their own destiny." "End of Part One" "AGONY Part Two" "We agreed on twenty kopecks." "Be happy with the ten I give you, and get lost." "Sir, we agreed the price was 20." " You want my coat, too?" " You owe me five more, sir." "It's still a kopeck short." "You owe me a kopeck, sir." "It's not fair, sir." "Sir, one more kopeck." " Wait, sir, where are you going?" " He'd rather be hanged than give in." "What's the big idea?" "Did you have to tell everyone?" " You whore!" " Do you mean me?" " Where's that offensive of yours?" " It'll come." "Where will it come?" "In the south?" "I've been told that in Minsk a landowner's fleeing the war." "His estate is in Baranovichi, it's captured by the Germans." "You sold it to me when I was drunk." "Made a fool of me." "You promised me the offensive by the end of autumn, didn't you?" "Then you tell me it's for Christmas, and I'm still waiting." "Moscow wasn't built in a day, either." "Let them mount an attack not in the south, but in the center." " What are you talking about?" " If not, I'll destroy you!" "Sweat those extra pounds off." "Everything will be all right." " You're a scoundrel!" " And you're another." "Where is he?" "Badma!" "What's wrong, Badma?" " I haven't slept for 3 nights." " Are you sick?" "It's Karma!" "I try to cross a stream " "I must reach Nirvana, on the other bank, but I can't." "I make a step, and I'm changed into a sheep, a step back, I'm again myself." " You have visions too?" " The sheep." "Sheep, millions of them." " It's a sign, Badma." " Baranovichi, huh?" " The place is crawling with Germans." " We'll crush them all." " And if they crush us?" " Then it's written in the stars." "You'd send Papa to the slaughter, there'd be a lot of blood." "Sheer bloodshed..." "They're already calling him "Bloody Nicholas"." "And Papa and I are graven in same metal." "Two sides of one coin." "Papa should smoke his pipe." "He gets what he deserves." "With the Czarevitch on the throne, the Czarina will be regent." "The rest is in your hands." " You're the marksman, I'm the rifle." " I point, you fire!" "So, charlatan, that's your little trick!" "You want to arrange the world to your liking, and not as it was ordained by God." "Remember, you didn't say it, I didn't hear it." "But don't touch Papa." "Is it clear?" "You know what I can do to you." "Ah, you're back again." "You managed to find me even here." "So what now?" "Just tell me your address and I'll come to you." "I'll be there." "A woman, she's worse than a cat in heat." "Well, we can talk later." "Of course, Grisha." "Go, amuse yourself." "You needn't think you're sinning, my little nightingale." "What is a sin, do you know?" "It's like an ink stain dirtying our souls." "And once we've sinned, then the stain is gone." "Come, nightingale, we'll uplift ourselves and then we'll pray." "You corrupted wives and mothers!" "Father Yakov, get started." "Brother Grigory, now is the moment of truth, to sit in judgement over your soul." "I realize it won't be easy to fight against you." "I've been called upon not as your friend, but as your enemy, and your merciless accuser." "In your devilish pride, you have put yourself above mere mortals." "You seized a power that God did not destine for you." "You have undermined the foundations of Orthodoxy, despoiled our monasteries and our churches." "You have sinned carnally, you have defiled the brides of Christ, forcing them to lie naked in the shape of the Holy Cross." "Out with it, blasphemer, is it true that Father Yakov says?" "On your knees!" "I'm guilty, Father." "Why did you torment those innocent souls?" "To expiate their sins." "By whose authority do you commit these acts?" " In the name of the Lord." " In the name of the Devil!" "You have afflicted human souls with corruption and despair!" "You presumed to take the place of the Orthodox Church!" "You cast an evil spell on the Emperor!" "In the name of the Lord I order you to never enter the Palace again." "Now kiss the cross, the Divine Gospel, the Holy relics!" "Renounce your sin!" "Make him sign the oath!" "With his thumb!" "The oath!" "Give the oath!" "Deprive him of his member, the fornicator!" "For your information, it's exactly ten o'clock." "Already..." "Yes, yes..." "Hello, Miss?" "It's me." "You got that?" "Put me through to the Empress." "What d'you mean, not allowed to?" "It's me, Rasputin." "To all of them, I'm a knife at their throats." "And it's coming..." "The terror is coming." "They all want a miracle." "They're splitting me apart." "To some, I'm the New Christ!" "To others the anti-Christ." "They're hunting me like a rat." "Why do they hate me?" "Who am I, Badma?" "You're a lecher, Grisha, a dog." "And you'll perish like a dog!" "Terekhov, have you got the car ready?" "There's no more car." "What do you mean?" "Your present status doesn't rate a car." "Stop your idiocy!" "Crazy lunatic!" "I just left him an hour ago." "We were offering prayers for you." " That's not true!" " What's not true, Your Majesty?" "Everything, Madame Vyrubova." "Dearest Holy Mary, comfort me in my sadness and help me..." "I beg you, Alexandra." "I've reached the end of my patience." "The General Staff is in revolt, the Ministers are complaining." "This starets of yours is meddling in everything." "I have no more patience!" "That's it!" "All those scandals, his brawling, loose women..." "Don't believe them, Nicky!" "He's our salvation!" "The Grand Dukes told me he's put a curse on the Romanov house." "Lies and intrigue!" "Those snakes around the Dowager Empress..." "Don't you speak that way of my mother!" "No, don't drive him out!" "How can an Emperor drive out his own people?" "And he is the people!" "That man is to be exiled from Petrograd and never to come back here!" "That's the end!" "O Lord!" "It's all over." "That's the end." "I must go away ragged and alone to my land." "Do not abandon, O Lord, their nest and keep it safe, especially the little fledgling, the young czarevitch." "Protect him, Lord, and the Grand Duchesses." "Bless them and give them handsome and high-born husbands." "Shelter the Emperor, give him the vision to reject hypocrites, support him in his solitude," "give him the wisdom and feed him well..." "Not disease or famine, neither war nor pestilence..." "The Pharisees shall all burn in the fires of Gehenna!" "Do you hear me?" "The Czarina, the martyr..." "She's a saint... a true saint..." "We'll push back the enemies!" "Our Orthodox victory shall go on!" "The Seraphs will come!" "With their trumpets!" "O Lord!" "What?" "Deliver Mother Russia!" "I've bartered my soul for her salvation..." "Oh Lord!" "Holy Father!" "What is it?" "Tell us!" "What is it?" "But... why?" "Baranovitchi." "Yes, Baranovitchi." "Baranovitchi?" "Baranovitchi!" "Only what does it mean?" "Shall I take the army to Baranovitchi?" "But our crack units are all deployed in the Southern offensive." "Baranovitchi is on the Western front." "Nicky!" "Yes!" "Yes, Nicky!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "But this offensive means a huge redeployment of troops which to say the least would be difficult at this time." "In that region, the enemy has a superior advantage." "M.V. Alexeyev, Chief of Staff" "Then let our fate be in the hands of Providence." "Your Majesty, the marshes will not disappear." "A.A. Brussilov, Commander of South-Western Front" "We can only advance there at the speed of one verst per hour." "The soldiers are walking in muck up to their bellies." "The Germans pick them off like mosquitoes." "The gun-carriers' wheels are in water, the hot meals never arrive." "To subject the army to these conditions is madness!" "And what's the opinion of my general on the Western front?" "A.E. Evert, Commander of the Western Front" "I'll obey all Your Majesty's orders to the last drop of blood." "Seems to me your casualty rate has been increasing most dramatically." "What do you mean, "dramatically"?" "Up to fifty percent." "What's even worse, we've lost the finest officers." "Mikhail Vassilievich, we lost even better ones." "That's what war is about." "There's still time to revise the orders, Your Majesty." "How are you, my lad?" "I shall serve Your Majesty till I die!" "One shot!" "One shot!" "One more demonstration, gentlemen." "S.S. Lazavert, Doctor" "Simply fabulous." "My hand is a little unsteady today." "Fyodor!" "Tell me, dear, did you hear something?" "Yes, Your Highness, I did." " What did you hear?" " Some shots." "That'll be all." "You see, gentlemen?" "This can be only a last resort." " Where is it?" " Excuse me, I'm still deaf." " Come on, let's see it." " It's right here." "We'll lay out the swine's favorite foods on the table." "Yes, cakes, fruits, Madeira." "This is the hydrocyanic acid." "The potassium cyanide." "Provoking instant paralysis of the central nervous system." "The cyanide in the Madeira." "We hold Russia's fate in our hands." "Let's solemnly swear that we'll sacrifice our lives, if necessary, to save both Mother Russia and the throne from this evil threat." "To Rasputin's death!" " To his death!" " To Rasputin's death!" "To his death!" "Go on there!" "Faster!" "The Lord bless us!" "Dmitry, son Varya, daughter" "Paraseva, wife Matryona, daughter" "If he doesn't fill his belly, even a pope will die." "Welcome, my dear guests." "Let us share the Lord's bounty." "There's wine for the heart, there's salt for the soul." "Bread and cheese to keep the spirit whole." "The horseradish." "Better than anything!" "Come on, everyone, dig in." "That ought to put a little fire in your belly." "Look who's come to join us." "It's Ivan on his wooden leg." "How are you, neighbor?" "Ah, my friends, you don't know how much I missed you." "I was like a mad dog in their stinking stone Sodom!" "You have to comfort them, exorcise their demons..." "But keep everything under your hat, or you're cooked!" "Tell the Czar how to run the country." "It takes much brainwork if you ask me." "Come on, drink up, my friend." "Are all his counselors stupid or dead?" "There's nothing wrong with his counselors." "So why does he waste his time with a peasant?" "Talking to peasants is like mother's milk to him." "With you holding the teat, huh?" "Bring on the food, bring on the drink!" "Make us a feast that is fit for a king!" "Here you are, children, eat!" "Grigory, you're a thieving liar." "Come on, everyone, eat!" " You may speak to emperors..." " You keep quiet!" "Eat, everyone, enjoy yourself." " You're the same thief as before." " Have you gone crazy?" "You know that as well as I do." "I'm telling the truth." "No ill feeling, but my poles are gone." "I put them carefully away in my barn." "And they've disappeared." "They're stolen by Grishka." "He's quite right about those poles." "You're a thief, Rasputin!" "Worthless!" "Always were and always will be!" "Come on, Mitya, better leave him be." "Give that back, it's not yours!" "Uncle Grigory, he pinched your letter..." "Don't do it!" "It's me, Terekhov." "It's me, see?" "Doing my duty..." "Care of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk Province." "Grigory Rasputin." "The wolf caught the sheep at Baranovitchi and slit their throats." "Say a prayer for the dead." "Mama." "Makarovna!" "Forgive me in the name of Christ!" "Ivan!" "Forgive this humble servant of Lord!" "Nobody will answer!" "I hate you!" "All of you!" "Among all those who uphold the ideals of autocracy," "I'm perhaps the most ardent monarchist of all." "But there're times when we can't afford to take a narrow view of things." "We must sound the tocsins from the high tower of Ivan the Great..." "V.M. Purishkevich, Bessarabian landowner, ultra-rightist ...from which one can see every corner of Holy Russia." "For the Empire is in trouble." "Owing to our ex-colleagues, the Bolsheviks, whom we have, and we must all thank God for this, expelled from the Duma for good... the country is in revolt, and perhaps even in revolution." "The Duma can only advise." "But the monarchy is in peril." "And nothing so much undermines the very foundations of the crown as the forces of darkness introduced by Grigory Rasputin!" "Our finest Ministers are cast aside like cheap trinkets, all because they refused to be dominated, they would not cede to Rasputin's dissolute demands!" "The selection of the Cabinet belongs exclusively to the Czar." "If honor counts more than career for you, gentlemen, and if the future of Russia, her might, her power, her glory, so closely linked to the Czar's destiny, means anything to you," "go and tell the Emperor that it must be stopped!" "Ask him to free Russia from Rasputin, and his followers, high and low." "For he's more threatening to stability than the Teutonic invader!" "Allow me to introduce myself and to congratulate you." "Gentlemen, let's have a picture!" "For posterity!" "Grigory Efimovich!" "Grigory Efimovich, Ivan has been arrested." "We have to hurry." "Manassevich-Manuilov was taken to prison." "Have mercy on me, oh Lord!" "Take pity on me, Thy humble servant." "Ivan was arrested." "Ye who are merciful towards all, forgive this sinner and bless him." "One minute's delay might mean the end of us." "Help me lie down and sleep in peace." "I, the fornicator, the sinner..." " You've got to call." " Call now, Grigory Efimovich." "Soon the bells will ring..." "And I will kneel, and I will sing, and I will glorify Thy Holy Name, and the name of Thy Holy Son..." "Now and for all eternity." "Amen." "Lead us to Thy Holy gates..." "Miss, put me through to 2-24-36." "He was arrested by order of the Minister of the Interior." "They claim that the failed offensive was all your idea, that I have vested interests in Baranovitchi and that I bribed you." " Didn't you?" " I?" "You'll be punished by God." "By God?" "Sturmer is on the phone." "Hello, Grigory Efimovich." "Grigory Efimovich, are you there?" "Say something." "Hello?" "Look here, you old crock, why did you throw the good man in prison?" "Is he a horse thief or something?" "He's had three decorations!" "You can't arrest such a hero!" "I'm not the Minister of the Interior..." "You've been made Prime Minister so that you'd run things our way." " But I've been sick." " A sick man is no good to us." "Better give him a decent burial." "That's what I'll say to Mama." "I don't want to listen to you, you senile old fossil." "I beg you, hear me out..." "We must select a new prime minister, who is more loyal, devoted." " Who do you mean by we?" " You!" "And who is more loyal?" "Could it be you?" "Quiet, all of you!" "I wrote it..."My eye has fallen on you." "Grigory."" "Who do we send it to?" "Tell me!" "To Dobrovolsky." "The best man for Prime Minister would be Protopopov." "I'll put a cross." "Who you want it sent to?" " To Golitsyn." " Or even better, to Trepov." "Where's Annoushka?" "Go and get Annoushka Vyrubova!" "Lidka, go and find Vyrubova!" " Ahh!" "No!" "No!" " Go get her, good soul." "Well, enough, enough..." "You're hurting me." "Satan!" "Yes." "Very well, Your Majesty." "You can tell you troops they've got our authorization to shoot." "Mow them down!" "Take your sabers and impale the bastards!" "We'll make 'em sorry they began, rotten Bolsheviks!" "It is he, and he alone." "It is Rasputin who is guilty." "And may God be praised." "But if that happens, the blame will fall on his head." "Every abject indignity which our country's been subjected to..." "P.N. Balashov, deputy of the 4th Duma, monarchist ...the appalling corruption which is staining our honor will all be blamed on him." "It's true he's weak, he's cruel, he's pitiful, but he's the Czar." "And in Russia, that is a word that is sacred." "The Czar's reputation must stay intact." "Or all is chaos, anarchy..." "The bottomless pit of darkness!" "Let shame be upon us if we fail in our task of catching you in the act this very night!" "Like a mad dog..." "Grind him under our boots like a serpent." "V.A. Maklakov, deputy of the Duma, Constitutional Democrat" "He's not a Holy Man, he's a Holy Maniac!" "The country is demoralized!" "A wasteland, chaos..." "It's time to apply leeches, to let the blood out." "Murder is wrong!" "No matter who kills whom, it's immoral!" "It's against God!" "We can never establish a moral society if the means we use are immoral ones." "The country is falling apart, the tide may be irreversible." "You can save these arguments for the Duma." "Can't you see what's coming?" "And you talk about leeches!" "Try to remember how many heinous murders Russia has seen." "We must avert the catastrophe by any means, including murder!" "There had been so many palace murders, and to no good result." "And no one got away with it." "All of it has latently led us to this year." "And it means we have sprung from the same dungheap." "Preaching on and on!" "That's all you know!" "I tell you the Czar will be deposed!" "And the great Russian monarchy will be gone!" "And with the monarchy goes all Russia!" "To demolish Russia is to demolish the world." "Why don't you eat, Grigory?" "Come on, eat." "Have some pastries." "I got them for you." "If he doesn't fill his belly, even a pope will die." "Go fetch your wife." "She's upstairs, with the ladies." "She'll be down soon." "She's upstairs, with the ladies." "She'll be down soon." "Who?" "Where?" "Try some of this." "What are you waiting for, Felix?" "I don't have much time." "Go get her." "Get your wife here, Felix." "Your Madeira tastes terrible, Prince." "Stinks of the barrel." "Well, where's Irina?" "Go fetch her." "Keep it up, don't stop!" "The poison isn't working." "What?" "I swear..." "Lazavert!" "That's pure cyanide, gentlemen!" "Hey, watch it!" "Irina!" "Mitya, he's the devil!" "We'd better let him go." "This is taking longer than I thought." "I have to go." "Gentlemen..." "Can anyone drop me?" "It's pure potassium cyanide, I'm positive." "I think we all better go." "We'll try it some other night." "The man's stuffed with poison." "It will sure become known." "We can't let him walk out of here alive." "Yes, yes, yes..." " Hurry, gentlemen." " You're losing your face, Lieutenant." "You're a Grand Duke." "You're in the Imperial family." "They won't touch you." "For me it's Siberia!" "Felix!" "Damn him, the sorcerer!" "What's the matter with you, gentlemen?" "Pardon..." "Felix!" " Why me?" " You're the master of the house." " So what?" " It'll be easier for you to do it." "He doesn't know we're here." "It's all right." "There are angels." "I hear music." "Get her." "Come on, come on." "Oh, God..." "Bastard!" "I hate you!" "We have to wrap up the corpse." "Stop it!" "Filth!" "Are you crazy?" " We have to wrap up the corpse." " I'll get a curtain." "Stop it!" "You put on his fur coat." "Go to the car, as if you were him." " Rotten scum." " Don't start again!" "Come on!" "In the car!" "Where is he?" "Where is he?" "Gone to a land without pain or strife, he will return... to eternal life." "The tears we weep for him turn to songs of joy..." "Hallelujah, hallelujah..." "I hate it!" "I hate this country!" "The year of 1916 was almost over." "One of Russia's blackest periods was drawing to a close." "The Imperial regime was doomed." "The monarchy was living its last days." "On October 25, 1917 the new history of Russia began." "Cast" "V. LINE as Alexandra Fyodorovna" "A. FREINDLIKH as Vyrubova" "A. ROMASHIN as Nicholas II" "A. PETRENKO as Rasputin" "A. ROMANTSOV as Yussoupov" "S. MUCHENIKOV as Dmitry Pavlovich" "Yu." "KATIN-YARTSEV as Purishkevich" "B. IVANOV as Lazavert" "A. PAVLOV as Sukhotin" "L. BRONEVOY as Manassevitch-Manouilov" "B. OMAROV as Badmayev P. PANKOV as Manus" "M. DANILOV as Andronnikov V. OSENEV as Sturmer" "P. ARZHANOV as Goremykin A. ARKADIEV as Rodzianko" "V. RAIKOV as Khvostov B. ROMANOV as Balashov" "A. TRISHKIN as Maklakov A. MAIKOVA as Nikitina" "N. PSHYONNAYA as Baroness M. SVETIN as Terekhov" "Narrated by A. KALIAGIN" "The End"