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General Suvorov (1941)

General Suvorov (1941)

Drama History
Release Date: 1941, January 23
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Pavel Volkov, Mikhail Astangov, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Dorofeyev, Aleksandr Smirnov, Valentina Karavayeva, Aleksandra Danilova, Aleksandr Khanov, Viktor Plotnikov, Viktor Lazarev, Yevgeny Gurov, Anatoliy Solovyov

Overview:

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.