Rasputin - The Movie Alan Rickman

[Scott]

Yes

[ferngully]

he looks a bit like the real alexei i think
:)selina                 xxxxxxxxxx

[Lyss]

I remember seeing it a long time ago. What I remembered out of it the most was one scene where Alexey is sick and someone (I think Alx) tells (I think) Maria to fetch someone and that girl actualy looked a lot like the real grandduchess. But is't al so blur and now I can't find pictures from the movie to see if I'm right.

[sailor_of_standart]

The scene I can remember is when Nicholas has told Alix what happened about his abdication, Alexei over hears the conversation and returns to the girls who are down the end of a corridor looking confused and scared.   Alexei says in an adult tone to the girls as  he hobbles on his walking stick. "We are all going to die." There is gasps from the girls and the girl playing Maria collapses against the wall and starts to cry.

[sailor_of_standart]

I have to say I love this movie I have it on to VHS.  I thought it was great when Rasputin made a scene in that Restruarnt.  It was funny.

[anna]

This movie is already for a long time available on dvd.

Anna

[ferngully]

i taped it but my sister taped over it!
selina                  xxxxxxxx

[Sarushka]

I was positively crazy about this movie about 8 years ago. (I worked at the library and reted it at least twice a week). I'm glad I saw it when I did -- the historical 'whoopsies' would make me nuts now.  

Ian McKellan, Alan Rickman & Freddie Finlay were WONDERFUL. As for Greta Scacci? Well, I think she's a great actress, but I don't think she captured all the sides of Alix's personality -- too focused on the anxiety & not enough on the regality. Alix was a force to be reckoned with, and that didn't come through very well in this movie. Her religious devotion was done nicely, though.

Rickman did so well with Rasputin. None of the hokey, overdone hypnotism stuff. His behavior was all over the map, of course, but he managed to thread it all together in a way that doesn't make Rasputin look just plain crazy. Irratic, yet cunning, without being a power-hungry maniac.

And the execution scence is the best I've seen. Let's just say they didn't spare the audience!  

[Ortino]

Is the movie "Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny" the same movie you all are referring to? I was looking at my library for this movie and this (^) is what I came across. It has all the same actors and everything, but I was surprised by the name.

[Sarushka]

Yep, that's the one! (At least they saved the corniness for the subtitle )

[granduchessmariska]

I saw the one with Christopher Lee and another with Alan Rickman. I particularly liked the one with Alan Rickman, I think it was more realistic than Christopher Lee's, although some facts were altered.
Christopher Lee's portrayal was so focused about him, you rarely saw the family. I own it, but I don't really like it.

[amflutist]

I think he did a really nice job. He doesn't really have the same face as Alexei, but he has the right hair color and the Russian accent is adorable and adds just the right touch of reality.

[frankie]

I´ve got the night gown that Freddie Findlay used in that movie. Its white with and A embroiled on it.

I also have an autograph and a letter he sent me.

I like the movie a lot.

[rskkiya]

    While I love Alan Rickman, Gretta Schacci and Sir Ian McKellan, I was not that thrilled with this one...[Then again its been years since I saw it....] I cannot really say that I thought McKellan was convincing as Nicholas... Perhaps its the fact that that I imagine Ian as very sharp, but I don't consider Nicky as all that 'on the ball'.
   Admittedly I've only seen this film in bits and pieces years ago... but having seen so many positive remarks here - I am bound to now try to rent it.

[Grishka]

Although I adore Alan Rickman's portrayal of Rasputin (it was his performance that got me interested in the entire subject) I have to say that the best film about Rasputin I've seen is the Russian film Agony by Elem Klimov with Aleksei Petrenko playing Rasputin. This is an excellent film and is much more accurate than any film I have yet seen. It was made in 1975 and only released ten years later after being banned by the Russian government supposedly because it gave a too sympathetic view to the czar.