
2016
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.

Mechthild Großmann
Herself - Narrator (voice)

Laurence Huot-Solovieff
Herself - Descendant

Boris Kolonitsky
Himself - Historian

Sergei Mironenko
Himself - Historian

Olga Utotschkina
Herself - Historian

Marie Turquois-Bowman
Herself - Writer

Florian Langer
Himself - Physician

Alexei Larionov
Himself - Art Historian

Yulia Pashkovskaya
Herself - Hotel Manager

Natalia Saizeva
Herself - Historian

Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Himself (archive footage)

Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Herself (archive footage)

Czarevitch Alexei Nikolaevich
Himself (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
Himself (archive footage)

Battleship Potemkin

Mammoth

Katyn

Journey to the East

Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

The Balance Sheet of Siberia

Russian Ark

Reds

Shalborne

Rubens: A Life in Europe

Target... Earth?

The Great Famine

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

King Håkon's Coronation

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Nicholas and Alexandra

Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage

Prince Vladimir

The Cultural History of Museums

The Reindeer Thief