Minin and Pozharsky

Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

HistoryDrama

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.

Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller.

Casts

	Aleksandr Khanov as Kuzma Minin
	Boris Livanov as Prince Pozharsky
	Boris Chirkov as Roman
	Anatoli Goryunov as Getman Khodkevich
	Lev Sverdlin as Grigori Orlov
	Vladimir Moskvin as Stepan Khoroshev
	Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky as Ivan Zarutskiy
	Lev Fenin as Smit
	Mikhail Astangov as King Sigismund
	Ivan Chuvelyov as Vaska
	Vladimir Dorofeyev as Nelyub Ovtsin
	Yevgeny Gurov as De Mallo
	Yelizaveta Kuzyurina as Pozharskiy's wife
	Nina Nikitina as Palashka
	Nikolai Nikitich as Fedor Zotov
	Pyotr Sobolevsky as Anokha
	Naum Rogozhin as (unconfirmed)
	Mikhail Gluzskiy as (uncredited)
	Sergei Komarov as Knyaz Trubetskoi
	Oleksandra Vasylieva as
	Leonid Alekseev as
	Iona Biy-Brodskiy as Priest
	Aleksandr Chistyakov as Prokopiy Lyapunov
	Vladimir Uralskiy as Deacon
	Viktor Bubnov as Peasant in the crowd (uncredited)

Crew