ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR

“A powerful recreation of one of modern history’s pivotal events, addressing Russian history and the country’s current state in a compelling manner.” - Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

From the director of the surrealist satire ZEROGRAD, ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR arrived on the scene in the final days of the Soviet regime. This labyrinthine psychodrama stars Malcolm McDowell in one of his finest latter-day performances. McDowell is Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a dreary Soviet mental hospital who’s impossibly convinced that he’s the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The hospital’s thoughtful new lead doctor is determined to cure Timofeyev of his madness but instead finds himself literally pulled back through time, inhabiting ghosts of the past as they march towards their tragic destiny.