Lieutenant Kizhe
Поручик Киже
Release: 1934-03-07
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 5.2
Comedy
Drama
History
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Belgoskino
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Andrei Kostrichkin
as Lieutenant Sinyukhaev
Mikhail Yanshin
as Tsar Pavel I
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as Fortress commandant
Vladimir Lepko
as Count Kutaysov (uncredited)
Boris Gorin-Goryainov
as Count von Pahlen
Nina Shaternikova
as Princess Gagarina
Sofiya Magarill
as Princess Gagarina's companion
Erast Garin
as Adjutant
Leonid Kmit
as Scribe
