Poor, Poor Pavel

Poor, Poor Pavel (2003)

Drama

Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.

Director: Vitaliy Melnikov

Casts

	Viktor Sukhorukov as Emperor Pavel the First
	Oleg Yankovskiy as Count Palen
	Oksana Mysina as Empress Mariya Fyodorovna
	Aleksey Barabash as Aleksandr
	Anna Molchanova as Yelizaveta
	Yuliya Mavrina as Lopukhina
	Igor Shibanov as Kutaisov
	Yevgeni Karpov as Konstantin
	Vadim Lobanov as Bezborodko
	Vera Karpova as Baroness Livsi
	Aleksandr Grigoryants as Brenna
	Dmitriy Sutyrin as Yashvil
	Boris Khvoshnyanskiy as De Ribas
	Sergey Barkovsky as Rogerson
	Ivan Parshin as Valeryan Zubov
	Aleksandr Tsybulsky as
	Samvel Muzhikyan as
	Sergey Murzin as
	Artur Kharitonenko as
	Denis Agatov as
	Aleksey Barabash as
	Vitaliy Pichik as
	Mikhail Dolginin as
	Aleksei Kravchenko as
	Igor Shibanov as
	Dmitriy Lebedev as
	Vadim Lobanov as
	Aleksandr Samokhin as
	Pavel Kornakov as
	Andrey Chumanov as
	Evgeniy Shchetinin as

Crew