General Suvorov

1h 40m

5.8

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 P. Cherkasov

Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)

Aleksandr Khanov

Platonych, his second-in-command

Mikhail Astangov

Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)

Apollon Yachnitskiy

Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)

Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)

Vsevolod Aksyonov

Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)

Aleksandr Antonov

Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration

Franz von Weyrother

Aleksandr Smirnov

Aleksey Gorchakov

Mikhail Miloradovich

Viktor Plotnikov

Crew

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Georgiy Grebner

Lyudmila Pechieva

Assistant Editor

Anatoli Golovnya

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

First Assistant Director

Mikhail Gomorov

Assistant Director

Production Design

Vladimir Egorov

Production Design

Konstantin Yefimov

Nikolai Timartsev

Original Music Composer

Nikolay Levitskiy

Script Consultant