Raspoutine (2011 film)
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| Directed by | Josée Dayan |
| Produced by | Arno Frilli, Anastasia Kovtun, Svetlana Slityuk |
| Written by | Philippe Besson, Vincent Fargeat |
| Starring |
Gérard Depardieu Vladimir Mashkov Fanny Ardant |
| Music by | Stéphane Gaubert, Frederick Duni |
| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
Production company |
Mosfilm France Televisions |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 min. |
| Country |
Russia France |
| Language |
Russian French |
Raspoutine or (Russian: Распутин, translit. Rasputin) is a Franco-Russian historical film about the last year of the life of one of the most enigmatic figures of Russian history of the 20th century - Grigori Rasputin.
Plot
...Russia, 1916. Exhausted by the First World War, shaken by internal contradictions, the Russian Empire slowly and inexorably moves toward its collapse. Some of the well-born aristocrats and members of royal family decide that the only way to save the country is to expel the famous seer and healer Grigori Rasputin from St. Petersburg. This is a simple Russian man without any formal titles, but Rasputin is very friendly with the Emperor and his wife and has a huge impact on them.
Princess Zinaida Yusupova tries to explain to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna the harmfulness of her friendship with Rasputin, trying to prove that Rasputin terribly discredits not only the entire royal power, but also the Empress personally. But all this is in vain! Rasputin regularly cures the only son of the Empress from attacks of haemophilia, and therefore Alexandra never drives out "the holy elder". Seeing that her entreaties are useless, Princess Yusupova decides to act tough. And she persuades her son Felix to organize a plot to murder Rasputin...
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu – Grigori Rasputin (Russian voice by Sergei Garmash)
- Vladimir Mashkov – Russian Emperor Nicholas II of Russia
- Fanny Ardant – Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian voice by Marina Neyolova)
- Anna Mikhalkova – Anna Vyrubova
- Irina Alfyorova – Zinaida Yusupova
- Filipp Yankovsky – Felix Yusupov
- Natalya Shvets – Irina Yusupova
- Leonid Mozgovoy – Makary the priest
- Danila Kozlovsky – Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
- Konstantin Khabensky – Aron Simanovich, Rasputin's personal secretary
- Kseniya Rappoport – Maria ("Munya") Golovina, Rasputin's votaress and secretary
- Yuliya Snigir – Dora
- Yuri Kolokolnikov – Oswald Rayner
- Igor Sergeyev – Vladimir Purishkevich
- Sergey Zamorev – Boris Stürmer
- Ernst Romanov – George Buchanan
- Petr Gavrilyuk – Eugene Botkin
- Tamara Kolesnikova – Dowager Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna
- Victor Kostetskiy – archimandrite
- Alexander Ryazantsev – Russian Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich
Filming
- The main filming took place in Russia: Saint Petersburg (Smolny Convent and Moika Palace) and Pushkin (Catherine Palace and Alexander Palace). Some scenes of the film were shot in Marseille.[1]
- According to Gérard Depardieu some changes to the script of the film were made personally by Vladimir Putin.[1]