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Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

Drama History
Release Date: 1939, November 3
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Mikhail Astangov, Vladimir Dorofeyev, Vladimir Uralskiy, Iona Biy-Brodskiy, Aleksandr Khanov, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Yevgeny Gurov, Nina Nikitina, Boris Chirkov, Yelizaveta Kuzyurina, Boris Livanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky

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.