Agony: The Life and Death on Rasputin (DVD)
Banned in Russia for over a decade for its blasphemous portrayal of Nicholas II, Elem Klimov`s (COME AND SEE) intense drama brings to life the controversial figure of the
mad monk
who wielded a legendary power over the royal family. Klimov`s portrayal is indeed an indictment of the ruling class, depicting the Czar (Anatoli Romashin) as an ineffectual ruler blindly led by the charismatic, power-hungry Grigory Rasputin (Aleksei Petrenko), while the politically decrepit aristocracy degenerated into decadence and hedonism. Arriving at court with a strange healing power that many attributed to hypnotism, Rasputin was the only person capable of treating the Tsar`s young heir, stopping his uncontrollable bleeding later recognized as hemophilia. Once his place in the palace was secure, however, the monk embarked upon a downward spiral of sexual vice, drunkenness, and violence that made him many enemies among society`s upper echelons. Eventually deciding that Rasputin`s power threatened the security of Russia`s monarchy, a group of noblemen plotted a demise that would enter history as one of the most fabled murders of all time. Petrenko`s performance is nothing less than spectacular, channeling the spirit of Rasputin in a chillingly apt depiction of insanity.
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Ian McEwan's unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne. Henry is both a happy man and a decent one as, on Saturday, February 15, 2003, in London, he goes about his business--shopping, interacting with his wife, enjoying the day. (George Bush is in London, and the streets are clogged with demonstrators against the Iraq war--a situation McEwan's hero confronts with a rather skeptical eye.) Henry meets up with a mugger named Baxter who, he immediately recognizes, has the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea. Later, when Henry is back home with his family, Baxter turns up again, and this time he is even more threatening. Without sentimentality or preachiness, McEwan provides a picture of a good man living in a complicated world, and of the small acts of kindness and judgment that make the small differences that add up in welcome but unexpected ways. LARGE PRINT
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