Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

6.1/10 125 min History Drama

Overview

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

Cast

Aleksandr Khanov

Kuzma Minin

Boris Livanov

Prince Pozharsky

Boris Chirkov

Roman

Anatoli Goryunov

Getman Khodkevich

Lev Sverdlin

Grigori Orlov

Vladimir Moskvin

Stepan Khoroshev

Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky

Ivan Zarutskiy

Lev Fenin

Smit

Mikhail Astangov

King Sigismund

Ivan Chuvelyov

Vaska

Vladimir Dorofeyev

Nelyub Ovtsin

Yevgeny Gurov

De Mallo

Yelizaveta Kuzyurina

Pozharskiy's wife

Nina Nikitina

Palashka

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Anokha

Naum Rogozhin

(unconfirmed)

Mikhail Gluzskiy

(uncredited)

Oleksandra Vasylieva

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