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Agony (1981) Agoniya

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
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Agony (1981) Agoniya

Agony (1981)
DVDRip | MKV | 692x456 | x264 @ 2480 Kbps | 131 min | 2,93 Gb
Audio: Русский AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (13): English, Русский, Français, Español, Nederlands, 日本語, Svenska, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, עברית, 中文, العربية
Genre: Drama

Director: Elem Klimov
Writers: Semyon Lungin, Ilya Nusinov
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line

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.


This film is so odd and bizarre that I was totally immersed in it. In actuality this is a basic story that deals with Siberian peasant 'Rasputin', the mystic whose ability to improve the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne, made him an influential favourite at the court of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. The actor who plays Rasputin is an evil duplicate, a man who is oozing virulence, he has a very charismatic smile that almost looks diabolical.He's a strange character and has a powerful influence on the Czar's family and Russian political life. As the viewer, we are left to wonder, 'what do these people see in him, how does he control them so?'. He soon makes enemies of the church, the state, and local husbands who do not take kindly to his debauchery and licentiousness. The director is brilliant in weaving a documentary montage of Russian events and the ending is one of the most powerful ever envisioned by a director.
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Agony (1981) Agoniya

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