根据亚历山大·普希金的同名戏剧改编，讲述沙皇鲍里斯·戈东诺夫的传奇故事，他于1598年－1605年统治俄罗斯。

The film starts pretty slow and straight-forwardly. Good, but almost ordinary storytelling. The setting is the 1920's in Bucharest and we get to have a feeling of that time and place. We learn of the obvious traits of all the characters. Emilia is promiscuous. Ladima is too nice and platonic (man of integrity). Fred wa…