Lieutenant Kizhe (1934)

5.5/10 83 min Comedy Drama History

Overview

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.

Cast

Mikhail Yanshin

Tsar Pavel I

Boris Gorin-Goryainov

Count von Pahlen

Nina Shaternikova

Princess Gagarina

Sofiya Magarill

Princess Gagarina's companion

Erast Garin

Adjutant

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Fortress commandant

Leonid Kmit

Scribe

Andrei Kostrichkin

Lieutenant Sinyukhaev

Vladimir Lepko

Count Kutaysov (uncredited)

Fedor Fedorovski

Grenadier (uncredited)

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