A screening of Elem Klimov’s 1974 film The Agony, with score by Alfred Schnittke. This account of Rasputin's influence on Russia's monarch and the damning events that followed fuelled a controversy that would make cinema history.

The film was forbidden in the Soviet Union for fifteen years. The music from The Agony was used in the finale of the Cello Concerto No.2, to be performed in the evening concert.

The film screening will take place in the Royal Festival Hall.

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