General Suvorov
Суворов
Release: 1941-01-23
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 5.8
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Nikolai P. Cherkasov
as Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
Aleksandr Khanov
as Platonych, his second-in-command
Aleksandr Antonov
as Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)
Aleksandr Smirnov
as Aleksey Gorchakov
Nikolai Arsky
as Mikhail Miloradovich
Viktor Lazarev
Mikhail Astangov
as Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
Apollon Yachnitskiy
as Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
Vsevolod Aksyonov
as Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)
Boris Livanov
Georgi Kovrov
as Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
Sergey Kiligin
as Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
Yevgeny Gurov
as Franz von Weyrother