General Suvorov

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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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

100 minutes

Year:

1941

Director:

Mikhail Doller

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Company:

Mosfilm

Cast:
Nikolai P. Cherkasov

Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)

Aleksandr Khanov

Platonych, his second-in-command

Mikhail Astangov

Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)

Apollon Yachnitskiy

Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)

Georgi Kovrov

Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)

Crew:
Georgiy Grebner

Writer

Mikhail Doller

Director

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director

Nikolai Ravich

Writer

N. Davidov

Art Direction