Minin and Pozharsky
(1939)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 9 votes
Year: 1939
Runtime: 125 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Всеволод Пудовкин, Михаил Доллер
Cast: Александр Ханов, Борис Ливанов, Борис Чирков, Анатолий Горюнов, Лев Свердлин, Vladimir Moskvin, Евгений Калужский, Лев Фенин, Михаил Астангов, Иван Чувелёв
Plot
Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.