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
Aleksandr Tsybulsky
Aleksei Kravchenko
Aleksandr Samokhin
Pavel Kornakov
Oksana Mysina
as Empress Mariya Fyodorovna
Igor Shibanov
as Kutaisov,
Dmitriy Sutyrin
as Yashvil
Sergey Barkovsky
as Rogerson
Ivan Parshin
as Valeryan Zubov
Artur Kharitonenko
Andrey Chumanov
Evgeniy Shchetinin
Boris Khvoshnyanskiy
as De Ribas
Sergey Murzin
Vitaliy Pichik
Mikhail Dolginin
Dmitriy Lebedev
Viktor Sukhorukov
as Emperor Pavel the First
Aleksey Barabash
as Aleksandr,
Anna Molchanova
as Yelizaveta
Yuliya Mavrina
as Lopukhina
Vadim Lobanov
as Bezborodko,
Vera Karpova
as Baroness Livsi
Samvel Muzhikyan
Denis Agatov
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Count Palen
Crew
Sergey Astakhov
Director of Photography
Andrey Petrov
Music
Andrei Zertsalov
Producer
Aleksandr Zagoskin
Production Design
Larisa Konnikova
Costume Design
Vitaliy Melnikov
Writer, Director
Valery Revich
Additional Director of Photography
Nikolay Pavlyuk
Stunt Coordinator
Oleg Vasilyuk
Stunt Coordinator