Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.
Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov
Aleksandr Suvorov
Apollon Yachnitskiy
Pavel I
Mikhail Astangov
Aleksei Arakcheev
Sergey Kiligin
Pyotr Bagration
Vsevolod Aksyonov
Meshcherski
Aleksandr Khanov
Platonych
Georgi Kovrov
Prokhor Dubasov
Aleksandr Antonov
colonel Tyurin
Yuri Domogarov
Matvei Platov (uncredited)
Aleksandr Smirnov
Aleksey Gorchakov (uncredited)
Galina Frolova
Peasant woman (uncredited)
Anatoliy Solovyov
Ivan Sinitsa (uncredited)
Galina Kravchenko
Lopukhina (uncredited)
Aleksandr Pelevin
colonel Tur (uncredited)
Yevgeny Gurov
Franz von Weyrother (uncredited)
Vladimir Maruta
Major-general Tolbukhin (uncredited)
Vladimir Dorofeyev
Avdeich (uncredited)
Aleksandra Danilova
peasant woman (uncredited)
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
woman with kids (uncredited)
Fyodor Ivanov
Egorka (uncredited)
Nikolai Arsky
Mikhail Miloradovich (uncredited)
Viktor Lazarev
episode (uncredited)
Viktor Bubnov
Episode (uncredited)
Elena Vasilyeva
episode (uncredited)
Pavel Volkov
episode (uncredited)
Mikhail Gladysh
episode (uncredited)
Karl Gurnyak
episode (uncredited)
Valentina Karavayeva
episode (uncredited)
Boris Livanov
episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Larionov
episode (uncredited)
Viktor Plotnikov
episode (uncredited)
Dmitri Popov
episode (uncredited)
Gleb Rozhdestvensky
episode (uncredited)
Nikoloz Sanishvili
episode (uncredited)
Crew
Mikhail Doller
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Georgiy Grebner
Screenplay
Nikolai Ravich
Screenplay
Lyudmila Pechiyeva
Editor
V. Sukhova
Assistant Editor
Anatoli Golovnya
Director of Photography
Tamara Lobova
Director of Photography
N. Sanov
First Assistant Director
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
A. Kravtsov
Executive Producer
I. Davydov
Production Design
Vladimir Egorov
Production Design
Konstantin Efimov
Costume Design
L. Porozov
Makeup & Hair
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Director
Yuri Shaporin
Original Music Composer
Nikolay Levitskiy
Military Consultant
