Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Aleksandr Khanov | ... | Kuzma Minin | |
Boris Livanov | ... | Knyaz Pozharsky | |
Boris Chirkov | ... | Roman | |
Anatoliy Goryunov | ... | Getman Khodkevich (as A. Goryunov) | |
Lev Sverdlin | ... | Grigori Orlov | |
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Vladimir Moskvin | ... | Stepan Khoroshev (as V. Moskvin) |
Sergey Komarov | ... | Knyaz Trubetskoi | |
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Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky | ... | Ivan Zarutskiy (as Ye. Kaluzhsky) |
Lev Fenin | ... | Smit | |
Mikhail Astangov | ... | King Sigismund | |
Ivan Chuvelyov | ... | Vaska | |
Vladimir Dorofeyev | ... | Nelyub Ovtsin | |
Yevgeny Gurov | ... | De Mallo | |
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina | ... | Pozharskiy's Wife (as Ye. Kuzyurina) | |
Nina Nikitina | ... | Palashka |
This terrible film is a good example of how soviet movie makers served to the Stalin's regime. It's a typical soviet film having completely nothing to do with the historic true. Remarkable it was made in 1939, the year when Red Army together with Hitler's troops invaded Poland; so the main purpose of Pudovkin's movie was obvious - to show how savage and cruel were Polish occupants of Moscow's Kremlin in the beginning of 17th century. In the last film scene we see Polish cavalry, hussard's, escaping from a battlefield. In reality, during the battle of Kluszyn (04th July 1610)30 000 Russians escaped quickly after a short battle against 7000 Polish Army - this example shows how historical truth was shown in this "masterpiece".