Depardieu plays the unkillable mystic who wouldn't die. They tried everything.
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Acting
Depardieu commits completely to Rasputin's feral charisma.
Costume
Imperial Russia dripping in jewels and desperation.
Production
Lush sets that cost more than the script deserved.
Director
Josée Dayan
Gérard Depardieu
Grigori Raspoutine
Fanny Ardant
L'Impératrice Alexandra
Vladimir Mashkov
Nickolas II
Irina Alfyorova
Zinaida Youssupov
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Oswald Rayne
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Aaron Simnovich
Kseniya Rappoport
Maria Golovina
Anna Mikhalkova
Anna Vyrubova
Danila Kozlovsky
Grand-duc Dimitriy
Filipp Yankovsky
Felix Youssoupov
Sergey Zamorev
Stürmer
Pyotr Zhuravlyov
Stanislavskiy
Elena Sever
countess
Dmitriy Moguchev
adjutant
Alexandr Ryazantsev
Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolaevich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Depardieu's son Guillaume appears as Prince Felix Yussupov, making the assassination disturbingly familial.
This French-Russian co-production premiered on TV, which explains its gorgeous emptiness—prestige aesthetics with soap opera bones.
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