asputin, and he decides to send Rasputin
             away; the Czarina strongly opposes to it, as she has formed a close bond
             with Rasputin and she believes he is the one keeping Alexei well. Rasputin
             is soon brought back to St. Petersburg as Alexei gets very ill and Czarina
             Alexandra demands Czar Nicholas II to bring him back. The second hour of
             the film deals with the involvement of Russia in the First World War under
             Czar Nicholas II; it depicts the suicide of General Alexander Samsonov. The
             Czarina pressures Czar Nicholas II to take command of the army and to move
             to the front, which he eventually does. Rasputin is assassinated by Prince
             Felix Yusupov, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. The final hour of the film
             deals with the Russian Revolution; Czar Nicholas's abdication of himself
             and also of Alexei, their removal from the Alexander palace and their
             placement in Siberia; the rise to power of the Bolshevik Party under
             Lenin's leadership; and the eventual assassination of the imperial family
             Schaffner does a great job at keeping an unbiased point of view, as
             none of the main characters seem to explicitly be portrayed as antagonists.
             Through the portrayal of Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, and Grigori
             Rasputin, we see how human agency played an important role in the downfall
             of the Romanov Dynasty and monarch rule in Russia. I will explore these
             three roles and analyze how their actions in the film and in reality, led
             Even though Czar Nicholas II was known by his critics and
             revolutionaries as Bloody Nicholas, the film depicts Nicholas as a caring,
             family-loving, naive man. The relationship between Czar Nicholas II and
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