Agony = Agoniya

Author

Ė G Klimov

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

In Russian, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Aleksei Petrenko, Anatoli Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Frejndlikh, Aleksandr Romsantsov, Yuri Katin-Yartsev, Leonid Bronevoy, Pavel Pankov.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (142 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Grigory Rasputin was a wandering Siberian monk whose messianic influence upon Russia's monarch led its people, like lambs to the slaughter, blind and headlong into World War I-- setting the stage for revolution.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Special features: Klimov, a film by Ron and Dorothea Holloway (50 min., with English subtitles) ; trailer for Come and see ; Elem Klimov filmography.