Minin and Pozharsky (film)

Minin and Pozharsky
Minin and Pozharsky
Directed by	Vsevolod Pudovkin; Mikhail Doller
Written by	Viktor Shklovsky
Starring	Aleksandr Khanov; Boris Livanov
Cinematography	Anatoli Golovnya
Music by	Yuri Shaporin
Production; company	Mosfilm
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[edit]

Aleksandr Khanov as Kuzma Minin
Boris Livanov as Prince Dmitri Pozharsky
Boris Chirkov as Ra Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Lev Sverdlin as Grigori Orlov
Vladimir Moskvin as Stepan Khoroshev, stablehand-conspirator
Sergei Komarov as Count Vasili Andreyevich Trubetskoi
Yevgeny Kaluzhhky as Ivan Zarutsky
Lev Fenin as Lt. Smith, Swedish mercenary
Mikhail Astangov as King Sigismund III of Poland
Ivan Chuvelyov as Peasant Conspirator-Leader
Vladimir Dorofeyev as Ovtsyn
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina as Pozharskaya
Nina Nikitina as Palashka
Pyotr Sobolevsky as Anokha, peasant
Yevgeni Gurov as Jesuit de Mallo
Mikhail Gluzsky as Pozharsky's servant
Andrei Fajt as Polish man

References[edit]

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen / Unwin. p. 348.

External links[edit]

Minin and Pozharsky at IMDb

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[leyda-1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen / Unwin. p. 348.

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