Agony (1981 film)

Agony
Theatrical release poster
Directed byElem Klimov
Written bySemyon Lungin
Ilya Nusinov
Produced byElem Klimov
StarringAleksei Petrenko
CinematographyLeonid Kalashnikov
Edited byValeria Belova
Music byAlfred Schnittke
Production
company
Distributed byMosfilm
Release dates
  • 21 July 1981 (1981-07-21) (Moscow)
  • September 1982 (1982-09) (Venice)
  • 19 February 1983 (1983-02-19) (Berlin)
  • June 1985 (1985-06) (Soviet Union)
Running time
see below
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Agony (Russian: Агония, romanized: Agoniya; U.S. theatrical/DVD title Rasputin) is a 1981 Soviet biographical film by Elem Klimov, made c.1973-75 and released in Western and Central Europe in 1982 (United States and Soviet Union 1985), after protracted resistance from Soviet authorities.[1] The film is notable for its rich, sometimes baroque style, its sumptuous recreation of episodes from the final year of Imperial Russia and the psychological portraits of Grigori Rasputin and the Imperial family.

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-1442268425.