General Suvorov
movie
Released January 23, 1941
Overview
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.
Cast
Nikolai P. Cherkasov
as
Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
Aleksandr Khanov
as
Platonych, his second-in-command
Mikhail Astangov
as
Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
Apollon Yachnitskiy
as
Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
Georgi Kovrov
as
Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
Vsevolod Aksyonov
as
Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)
Aleksandr Antonov
as
Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)
Sergey Kiligin
as
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
Yevgeny Gurov
as
Franz von Weyrother
Aleksandr Smirnov
as
Aleksey Gorchakov
Nikolai Arsky
as
Mikhail Miloradovich
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Viktor Plotnikov
Crew
Mikhail Doller
as
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
as
Director
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Georgiy Grebner
as
Writer
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Nikolai Ravich
as
Writer
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Yuri Shaporin
as
Original Music Composer
Anatoli Golovnya
as
Director of Photography
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Tamara Lobova
as
Director of Photography
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V. Sukhova
as
Editor
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I. Davydov
as
Production Design
Vladimir Egorov
as
Production Design
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Konstantin Yefimov
as
Costume Design
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Nikolai Timartsev
as
Sound Director