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Wikipedia article
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| writer = Philippe Besson
Vincent Fargeat
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| director = Jose Dayan
| starring = Grard Depardieu
Fanny Ardant
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| music = Stphane Gaubert
Frederick Duni
| country = Russia
France
| language = Russian
French
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| producer = Arno Frilli
Anastasia Kovtun
Svetlana Slityuk
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| cinematography = Ennio Guarnieri
| runtime = 105 min.
| company = Mosfilm
France Televisions
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'Raspoutine' is a 2011 Franco-Russian historical drama television film directed by Jose Dayan and starring Grard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov and Anna Mikhalkova. It centers on the last year in the life of the Russian historical figure Grigori Rasputin.
Plot
...Russia, 1916. Exhausted by the First World War, shaken by internal contradictions, the Russian Empire slowly and inexorably moves toward its collapse. Some of the well-born aristocrats and members of royal family decide that the only way to save the country is to expel the famous seer and healer Grigori Rasputin from St. Petersburg. This is a simple Russian man without any formal titles, but Rasputin is very friendly with the Emperor and his wife and has a huge impact on them.
Princess Zinaida Yusupova tries to explain to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna the harmfulness of her friendship with Rasputin, trying to prove that Rasputin terribly discredits not only the entire royal power, but also the Empress personally. But all this is in vain! Rasputin regularly cures the only son of the Empress from attacks of haemophilia, and therefore Alexandra never drives out "the holy elder". Seeing that her entreaties are useless, Princess Yusupova decides to act tough. And she persuades her son Felix to organize a plot to murder Rasputin...
Cast
* Grard Depardieu Grigori Rasputin (Russian voice by Sergei Garmash)
* Fanny Ardant Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian voice by Marina Neyolova)
* Vladimir Mashkov Russian Emperor Nicholas II of Russia
* Anna Mikhalkova Anna Vyrubova
* Irina Alfyorova Zinaida Yusupova
* Filipp Yankovsky Felix Yusupov
* Natalya Shvets Irina Yusupova
* Leonid Mozgovoy Makary the priest
* Danila Kozlovsky Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
* Konstantin Khabensky Aron Simanovich, Rasputin's personal secretary
* Kseniya Rappoport Maria ("Munya") Golovina, Rasputin's votaress and secretary
* Yuliya Snigir Dora
* Yuri Kolokolnikov Oswald Rayner
* Igor Sergeyev Vladimir Purishkevich
* Sergey Zamorev Boris Strmer
* Ernst Romanov George Buchanan
* Petr Gavrilyuk Eugene Botkin
* Tamara Kolesnikova Dowager Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna
* Victor Kostetskiy archimandrite
* Alexander Ryazantsev Russian Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich
Production
The main shooting for the film took place in Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg (Smolny Convent and Moika Palace), Pushkin (Catherine Palace and the Alexander Palace. Some scenes of the film were shot in Marseille.
According to Grard Depardieu, some changes to the film's script were made personally by Vladimir Putin.
References
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