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Peter the Great (1937 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Peter the Great' is a 1937-1938 Soviet two-part historical biographical film, shot on the Order of Lenin from Leningrad film studio Lenfilm director Vladimir Petrov on the eponymous play by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's devoted to the life and activity of the Russian Emperor Peter I.
Cast
* Nikolai Simonov as Tsar Pyotr I
* Mikhail Zharov as Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
* Nikolay Cherkasov as Prince Alexei
* Mikhail Tarkhanov as Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev
* Viktor Dobrovolsky as Yaguzhinsky, an officer / Fedka, a debtor
* Alla Tarasova as Catherine, a peasant girl
* Konstantin Gibshman as Buinosov, the boyar
* Nikolai Orlov as Yemov
* Fyodor Bogdanov as Foundry Owner
* Vladimir Gardin as Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy
Awards
* Prize at an exhibition in Paris (1937)
* Stalin Prize (1941) I Class Mikhail Zharov, Vladimir Petrov, Nikolay Simonov
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