Цареубийца (1991): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1991, Цареубийца is a drama and historie film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, running about 98 minutes. “Obsessed with the past. Condemned to repeat it.” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. 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...

Who’s in it. Цареубийца stars Oleg Yankovskiy as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II, Malcolm McDowell as Timofeyev / Yurovsky, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Александр Егорович and Yuriy Sherstnyov as Kozlov, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.4/10, Цареубийца has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In USA you can stream it on Philo, OVID, Fandor Amazon Channel and Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Цареубийца page.

If you liked it. Fans of Цареубийца tend to enjoy Die Verurteilten, Der Pate, Schindlers Liste and Der Pate - Teil II.