Timofeyev/Yurovsky
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Plot. Timofeyev ( Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918. Doctor Smirnov ( Oleg Yankovsky) decides to apply a peculiar therapeutic method on him, but things go in an unexpected way.
Oct 1, 1993 · Tsareubiytsa: Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov. Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin.
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- Drama, History
- Karen Shakhnazarov
- 1993-10-01
A Soviet doctor (Oleg Yankovsky) treats a schizophrenic (Malcolm McDowell) who insists he killed Nicholas II and family in 1918.
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- Karen Shakhnazarov
- History, Drama
- Malcolm Mcdowell
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, who wrote this with Aleksandr Borodyansky, Tsareubiytsa is about a patient in an asylum named Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell). He claims to be Yakov Yurovsky, the assassin of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, as well as the killer of his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.
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.
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- Karen Shakhnazarov
Sep 10, 2012 · Discover the best of the city, first. Mental patient Timofeyev (McDowell, twitchy and grizzled) is convinced that he assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and that he also led the firing squad...
Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a Moscow psychiatric hospital, Timofeyev, a man barely in his forties, claims he was the killer who changed the course of history.
