Vasily Livanov’s historical movie carries the viewer back into the 18th century and tells the story of the monument to Peter the Great through Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s poem «The Bronze Horseman». The sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet comes from France at the invitation of the Empress Ekaterina the 2nd to erect the monument. Thanks to the master’s meticulous work and painstaking creative search the monument has become not only a masterpiece of art but one of the symbols of Russia.
Cast
Olga Belova
Ekaterina II
Andrey Sokolov
Yury Matveevich Felten, architect
Evgeniy Redko
Etienne Falcone, sculptor
Valeriya Lanskaya
Marie-Anne Collot, Falcone's student
Denis Tkachyov
Fontaine, carver
Boris Khvoshnyanskiy
Lascari, captain
Boris Livanov Jr.
Grigory Potemkin
Yuriy Loparyov
Unknown
Evgeniy Steblov
Unknown
Vladimir Tyagichev
Grigory Korchebnikov
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Unknown
Vladimir Ilin
Unknown
Yuriy Stoyanov
Unknown
Mariya Svirid
Varenka
Yuriy Nazarov
Unknown
