General Suvorov

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 23, 1941

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov,Apollon Yachnitskiy,Mikhail Astangov,Sergey Kiligin,Vsevolod Aksyonov,Aleksandr Khanov,Georgi Kovrov,Aleksandr Antonov,Yuri Domogarov,Aleksandr Smirnovand 24 more

Director

Mikhail Doller,Vsevolod Pudovkin

Writer

Georgiy Grebner,Nikolai Ravich

Producer

A. Kravtsov

Cinematography

Anatoli Golovnya,Tamara Lobova

Music

Yuri Shaporin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0033118