
Cinetrā

Cinetrā

Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил (original title)
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Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Cast: Vladimir Vysotsky, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov, Irina Mazurkevich, Mikhail Kokshenov, Evgeny Mitta, Semyon Morozov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Aleksandr Barushnoy, Vladimir Kashpur, Vasiliy Kornukov, Yuri Komarov, Valentina Klyagina, Vladimir Makhov, Vladimir Menshov, Yuri Martynov, Tatyana Nepomnyashchaya, Anatoliy Obukhov
Writers: Yuli Dunsky (Screenplay), Valeri Frid (Screenplay), Aleksandr Mitta (Screenplay), Alexander Pushkin (Novel)
Cinematographer: Valery Shuvalov
Production Designer: Georgi Koshelev, Igor Lemeshev
Editors: Nadezhda Veselovskaya, Z. Karpukhina
Composer: Alfred Schnittke
Costume Designer: Nadezhda Buzina
Direction team: Marina Koldobskaya (First Assistant Director), N. Esadze (Assistant Director), Ye. Yershov (Assistant Director), A. Pragina (Assistant Director), Natalya Sysoeva (Assistant Director)
Producer: Semyon Kutikov
Production: Mosfilm