Minin and Pozharsky is a 1939 Soviet

Cinema of the Soviet Union

The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage...

 and Mikhail Doller

Mikhail Doller

Mikhail Doller was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He worked as co-director with Vsevolod Pudovkin and was awarded Stalin Prize twice in 1941.-Life:...

, based on Viktor Shklovsky

Viktor Shklovsky

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet critic, writer, and pamphleteer.-Life:...

's novel "Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century".

The film is about the Time of Troubles

Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Russian Tsar of the Rurik Dynasty, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613. In 1601-1603, Russia suffered a famine that killed one-third...

, Russia's struggle for independence led by Dmitry Pozharsky

Dmitry Pozharsky

For the ship of the same name, see Sverdlov class cruiserDmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky was a Rurikid prince, who led Russia's struggle for independence against Polish-Lithuanian invasion known as the Time of Troubles...

 and Kuzma Minin against the Polish-Lithuanian invasion in 1611-1612.

In 1941, Pudovkin, Doller, Livanov, and Khanov received the Stalin Prize.

Cast

• Aleksandr Khanov - Kuzma Minin
• Boris Livanov
  Boris Livanov
  Boris Nikolayevich Livanov was a Soviet and Russian film actor, and screenwriter. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre from 1924 through 1972.* He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times...
  
   - Prince Dmitri Pozharsky
• Boris Chirkov
  Boris Chirkov
  Boris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize; in 1975, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour.-Selected filmography:* Alone * Chapaev...
  
   - Roman, escaped serf
• Anatoli Goryunov - Hetman Khodkevich
• Lev Sverdlin - Grigori Orlov
• Vladimir Moskvin - Stepan Khoroshev, stablehand-conspirator
• Sergei Komarov - Count Vasili Andreyevich Trubetskoi
• Yevgeny Kaluzhhky - Ivan Zarutsky
• Lev Fenin - Lt. Smit, Swedish mercenary
• Mikhail Astangov
  Mikhail Astangov
  Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov , pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR .-Selected filmography:* Minin and Pozharsky * Suvorov * The Murderers are Coming...
  
   - Sigismund III
  Sigismund III Vasa
  Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a monarch of the united Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and King of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599...
  
  
• Ivan Chuvelyov - Peasant Conspirator-Leader
• Vladimir Dorofeyev - Ovtsyn
• Yelizaveta Kuzyurina - Pozharskaya
• Nina Nikitina - Palashka
• Pyotr Sobolevsky
  Pyotr Sobolevsky
  Pyotr Stanislavovich Sobolevsky was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1926 and 1973.-Biography:Pyotr Sobolevsky was born on 22 May 1904 in Tomsk. Studied in the Factory of the Eccentric Actor under Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, in 1932 graduated from Leningrad...
  
   - Anokha, peasant
• Yevgeni Gurov
• Mikhail Gluzsky
  Mikhail Gluzsky
  Mikhail Gluzsky was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1939 and 2001. He starred in the 1972 film, Monologue, which was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival...