PRODUCT INFORMATION
THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR (TSAREUBIYTSA). From Karen Shakhnazarov, director of ZEROGRAD, ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious and labyrinthine psychological drama in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. In one of his finest latter-day performances, Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, TIME AFTER TIME) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a dreary Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The sympathetic head of the hospital, Dr. Smirnov (the great Russian actor Oleg Yankovskiy) is determined to cure Timofeyev of his madness - but instead finds himself literally pulled back through time, inhabiting the ghosts of the past as they march towards their tragic destiny. Shakhnazarov's fascinating, time-traveling mystery was filmed in two versions, shot simultaneously on separate 35mm negatives: the longer English-language version (104 min.) with McDowell's voice and a different score, and the slightly shorter Russian version (102 min.) with McDowell's voice dubbed and the rest of the cast speaking in Russian -- both versions included on this release. A Deaf Crocodile and Seagull Films release.
FEATURES:
New restoration from the 35mm elements by Mosfilm
Includes both English language and Russian language version of film with different edit and score
New interview with star Malcolm McDowell
New interview with director Karen Shakhnazarov
New commentary track by film writer and historian Samm Deighan
New essay by film critic and historian Walter Chaw
Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.
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