Minin and Pozharsky

Minin and Pozharsky is a 1939 Soviet historical drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, based on Viktor Shklovsky's novel "Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century". The film is about the Time of Troubles, Russia's struggle for independence led by Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin against the Polish invasion in 1611–1612. It was the first of several important Soviet films to show Poland as an aggressor. In 1941, Pudovkin, , Livanov, and Khanov received the Stalin Prize. Cast Aleksandr Khanov as Kuzma Minin Boris Livanov as Prince Dmitri Pozharsky Boris Chirkov as Ra Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz Lev Sverdlin as Grigori Orlov Vladimir Moskvin as Stepan Khoroshev, stablehand-conspirator Sergei Komarov as Count Vasili Andreyevich Trubetskoi Yevgeny Kaluzhhky as Ivan Zarutsky Lev Fenin as Lt. Smith, Swedish mercenary Mikhail Astangov as King Sigismund III of Poland Ivan Chuvelyov as Peasant Conspirator-Leader Vladimir Dorofeyev as Ovtsyn Yelizaveta Kuzyurina as Pozharskaya Nina Nikitina as Palashka Pyotr Sobolevsky as Anokha, peasant Yevgeni Gurov as Jesuit de Mallo Mikhail Gluzsky as Pozharsky's servant Andrei Fajt as Polish man