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 (1939-11-03)
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
• 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

External links

• Minin and Pozharsky at IMDb

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