Raspoutine (Russian: Распутин, romanized: Rasputin) is a 2011 Franco-Russian historical drama television film directed by Josée Dayan and starring Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov and Anna Mikhalkova.

Exhausted by the First World War and shaken by internal social and political instability, the Russian Empire slowly and inexorably moves toward its collapse.

Some of the well-born aristocrats and members of royal family decide that the only way to save the country is to expel the famous seer and healer Grigori Rasputin from St. Petersburg.

This is a simple Russian man without any formal titles, but Rasputin is very friendly with the Emperor and his wife and has a huge influence on them.

Rasputin, however, regularly cures the only son of the Empress from attacks of haemophilia, and therefore Alexandra never drives out "the holy elder".