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