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Directed by | Vsevolod Pudovkin Mikhail Doller |
Written by | Viktor Shklovsky |
Starring | Aleksandr Khanov Boris Livanov |
Music by | Yuri Shaporin |
Cinematography | Anatoli Golovnya |
Studio | Mosfilm |
Release date(s) | 3 November 1939 |
Running time | 3647 meters (109 minutes) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Minin and Pozharsky (Russian: Минин и Пожарский, Minin i Pozharskiy) is a 1939 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, based on Viktor Shklovsky's novel "Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century".
The film is about the Time of Troubles, Russia's struggle for independence led by Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin against the Polish-Lithuanian invasion in 1611-1612.
In 1941, Pudovkin, Doller, Livanov, and Khanov received the Stalin Prize.
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