Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Sep 01, 1981 | IMDB 6.5
142 min Watch NowHistory, Drama
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
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