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General Suvorov

55 %|Jan 23, 1941|Drama, History

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.

Featured Crew

Mikhail Doller
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Georgiy Grebner
Writer
Nikolai Ravich
Writer
Yuri Shaporin
Original Music Composer
Anatoli Golovnya
Director of Photography
Tamara Lobova
Director of Photography
V. Sukhova
Editor

Cast

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Nikolai P. Cherkasov
Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
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Aleksandr Khanov
Platonych, his second-in-command
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Mikhail Astangov
Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
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Apollon Yachnitskiy
Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
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Georgi Kovrov
Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
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Vsevolod Aksyonov
Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)
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Aleksandr Antonov
Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)
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Sergey Kiligin
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
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Yevgeni Gurov
Franz von Weyrother
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Aleksandr Smirnov
Aleksey Gorchakov
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Nikolai Arsky
Mikhail Miloradovich