Released:
1939-11-03

Overview:
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

Runtime:
2h 5min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Aleksandr Khanov
  as
  Kuzma Minin
• 
  Boris Livanov
  as
  Prince Pozharsky
• 
  Boris Chirkov
  as
  Roman
• 
  Anatoli Goryunov
  as
  Getman Khodkevich
• 
  Lev Sverdlin
  as
  Grigori Orlov