Rasputin (1996) on Netflix
R19961h 40mBiographyDramaHistory
In 1910s Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra bring Grigory Rasputin, a monk who says the Virgin Mary sent him, to heal their son Alexei's hemophilia. The court doctor doubts him.
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Plot summary
Alexei, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and heir to the Russian throne, suffers from hemophilia, and the family's physician, Eugene Botkin, cannot stop his bleeding. Nicholas keeps the illness hidden from the Russian people. Alexandra asks for a spiritual healer and summons Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian monk who says the Virgin Mary told him to come. Rasputin asks the boy about his injured leg, though no one told him of it, then soothes him with images of sailing. In the morning Alexei is well; Botkin credits his own treatment, while Alexandra believes Rasputin took the pain into his own body and gives him a chamber at the palace. Rasputin grows acquainted with Nicholas's daughters, and reports of his drinking and his flings with prostitutes reach the court and worry Nicholas.
Cast
- Freddie Findlayas Alexei
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rasputin (1996)
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- The film shows Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, played by John Wood, killed in 1913 at the Romanov dynasty's Tercentenary celebration and just before World War I; the real Stolypin was killed in 1911.
- The Russian Orthodox Choir singing the litany at the film's Tercentenary liturgy names Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, marking it as a choir of the 1990s; the Patriarchate did not exist under the later Romanovs, having been abolished by Peter the Great.
