2 Movies Starring Aleksey Petrenko

Rasputin

Rasputin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-11-15

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (781 Reviews)

Director:

Elem Klimov

Fullplot:

Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas, and the religious Czarina worships the Siberian as God. He manipulates the Czar in his relations with the Duma and influences the choice of a new premier. Rasputin assaults a baroness; her husband is jailed for defending her, and she must offer sexual favors to Rasputin to save her husband. The Czar finally orders Rasputin from St. Petersburg, but somehow he enters the palace and, in a disheveled trance, convinces the Czar to make a disastrous change in war strategy. A cadre of nobles take matters into their own hands and arrange a last dinner party for the interloping monk.

The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-20

Languages:

Russian, English, French, German

Countries:

Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic

Runtime:

180 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (8604 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Nikita Mikhalkov (story)

Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay)

Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay)

Rospo Pallenberg (in cooperation with)

Fullplot:

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, Andrè, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.

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