Minin and Pozharsky (film)
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Directed by | Vsevolod Pudovkin Mikhail Doller |
Written by | Viktor Shklovsky |
Starring | Aleksandr Khanov Boris Livanov |
Cinematography | Anatoli Golovnya |
Music by | Yuri Shaporin |
Production company | |
Release date | 3 November 1939 |
Running time | 3647 meters (109 minutes) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Minin and Pozharsky (Russian: Минин и Пожарский, romanized: Minin i Pozharskiy) is a 1939 Soviet historical drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, based on Viktor Shklovsky's novel "Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century".
The film is about the Time of Troubles, Russia's struggle for independence led by Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin against the Polish invasion in 1611–1612. It was the first of several important Soviet films to show Poland as an aggressor.[1]
In 1941, Pudovkin, Doller, Livanov, and Khanov received the Stalin Prize.
Cast[]
- Aleksandr Khanov as Kuzma Minin
- Boris Livanov as Prince Dmitri Pozharsky
- Boris Chirkov as Ra Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
- Lev Sverdlin as Grigori Orlov
- as Stepan Khoroshev, stablehand-conspirator
- Sergei Komarov as Count Vasili Andreyevich Trubetskoi
- as Ivan Zarutsky
- as Lt. Smith, Swedish mercenary
- Mikhail Astangov as King Sigismund III of Poland
- as Peasant Conspirator-Leader
- as Ovtsyn
- as Pozharskaya
- as Palashka
- Pyotr Sobolevsky as Anokha, peasant
- as Jesuit de Mallo
- Mikhail Gluzsky as Pozharsky's servant
- Andrei Fajt as Polish man
References[]
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen / Unwin. p. 348.
External links[]
Categories:
- Russian-language films
- 1939 films
- Soviet films
- Mosfilm films
- Soviet black-and-white films
- Films directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Soviet historical drama films
- 1930s historical drama films
- Films set in the 1610s
- Films directed by Mikhail Doller
- 1939 drama films
- 1930s Soviet film stubs