Poor, Poor Pavel
Бедный, бедный Павел
Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
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Cast
Artur Kharitonenko
Denis Agatov
Anna Molchanova
as Yelizaveta
Yuliya Mavrina
as Lopukhina
Vadim Lobanov
as Bezborodko,
Sergey Murzin
Mikhail Dolginin
Aleksei Kravchenko
Pavel Kornakov
Andrey Chumanov
Igor Shibanov
as Kutaisov,
Boris Khvoshnyanskiy
as De Ribas
Sergey Barkovsky
as Rogerson
Samvel Muzhikyan
Evgeniy Shchetinin
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Count Palen
Vera Karpova
as Baroness Livsi
Dmitriy Sutyrin
as Yashvil
Aleksandr Tsybulsky
Vitaliy Pichik
Dmitriy Lebedev
Aleksandr Samokhin
Viktor Sukhorukov
as Emperor Pavel the First
Oksana Mysina
as Empress Mariya Fyodorovna
Aleksey Barabash
as Aleksandr,
Ivan Parshin
as Valeryan Zubov
Crew
Valery Revich
Additional Director of Photography
Nikolay Pavlyuk
Stunt Coordinator
Oleg Vasilyuk
Stunt Coordinator
Vitaliy Melnikov
Writer, Director
Andrei Zertsalov
Producer
Alexandr Zagoskin
Production Design
Larisa Konnikova
Costume Design
Sergey Astakhov
Director of Photography
Andrey Petrov
Music