Country: Germany
Production Company: Gottschalk Tonfilm-Producktions GmbH
Producer: Ludwig Gottschalk
Director: Adolf Trotz
Screenplay: Conrad Linz, Adolf Lanz
Based on a manuscript by Ossip Dymow, Adolf Lanz
CAST
Conrad Veidt as Grigory Rasputin
Paul Otto as Tsar Nicholas II
Hermine Sterler Tsarina Alexandra
Kenneth Rive as Alexei
Karl Ludwig as Prince Youssoupoff
Theo Shall as Felix Suschoff
Alexandra Sorina as Anna Wyroubova
Brigitte Horney as Luscha
Eliza Temary as Nina
SYNOPSIS
Rasputin, a holy man with mystical healing powers as well as a lusty appetite for carousing and women, becomes the toast of society. But his increasing power over the Royal family and numerous women leads to concern and jealousy in other influential people. The secret service keep him under surveillance but their findings do not harm the peasant’s influence and so desperate measures are called for. A group of aristocrats carefully plot a murder, and after a night of riotous partying, Rasputin is lured away to his death.