Minin and Pozharsky (film)
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".
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Directed by | Vsevolod Pudovkin Mikhail Doller |
Written by | Viktor Shklovsky |
Starring | Aleksandr Khanov Boris Livanov |
Music by | Yuri Shaporin |
Cinematography | Anatoli Golovnya |
Production company | |
Release date | 3 November 1939 |
Running time | 3647 meters (109 minutes) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
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 - Kuzma Minin
- Boris Livanov - Prince Dmitri Pozharsky
- Boris Chirkov - Roman, escaped serf
- Anatoli Goryunov - Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
- Lev Sverdlin - Grigori Orlov
- Vladimir Moskvin - Stepan Khoroshev, stablehand-conspirator
- Sergei Komarov - Count Vasili Andreyevich Trubetskoi
- Yevgeny Kaluzhhky - Ivan Zarutsky
- Lev Fenin - Lt. Smit, Swedish mercenary
- Mikhail Astangov - King Sigismund III of Poland
- Ivan Chuvelyov - Peasant Conspirator-Leader
- Vladimir Dorofeyev - Ovtsyn
- Yelizaveta Kuzyurina - Pozharskaya
- Nina Nikitina - Palashka
- Pyotr Sobolevsky - Anokha, peasant
- Yevgeni Gurov
- Mikhail Gluzsky
References
- Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 348.
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