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An active participant in the killing of Russian governors and ministers (including the 1904 assassination of Interior minister V.K. Plehve), Boris Savinkov (1879-1925) became a leader of the terrorist faction of Russiaâs Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Perceived as moderates next to the Bolshevik party--which campaigned for a Communist revolution--the Socialist-Revolutionaries were a key segment of a broad leftist coalition opposing the regime of Nicholas II, the last Russian Tzar, before the Bolshevik Party assumed power in 1917. Early twentieth-century Russia is shocked by a series of cold-blooded assassinations carried out by the notorious Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, a radical left-wing group that seeks political power by terrorizing high government officials. The groupâs fanatical and cynical mastermind is George, himself an assassin, a man willing to die for his delusional ideas. His accomplices are the bomb-maker Erne, who is passionately devoted to him, and bomb throwers Vanya, a romantic and naïve student, and Fyodor, a worker leading a miserable, joyless life. Their main objective is to assassinate Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich, the Moscow governor general.
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| Also Known As: |
The Pale Horse
Vsadnik Po Imeni Smert
Vsadnik Po Imeni Smert (United States)
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama and Biopic |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 46 min. |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
Kino International
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| Production Co.: |
MosFilm
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$2,438 |
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| Filming Locations: |
Moscow, Russia
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