The Poet and the Tsar
{{short description|1927 film}}
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| director = {{ubl|Vladimir Gardin|Yevgeni Chervyakov}}
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| writer = {{ubl|Vladimir Gardin|Yevgeni Chervyakov}}
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| cinematography = {{ubl|Naum Aptekman|Svyatoslav Belyayev}}
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| studio = Sovkino
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| released = {{film date|df=yes|1927}}
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| country = Soviet Union
| language = {{ubl|Silent|Russian intertitles}}
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The Poet and the Tsar ({{langx|ru|Поэт и царь|Poet i tsar}}) is a 1927 Soviet silent biopic film directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yevgeni Chervyakov.Christie & Taylor p.432
Plot
Tsar Nikolai I is infatuated with Natalia Goncharova, wife of Alexander Pushkin. Trying to hide his passion, the tsar helps Natalia get closer with officer d'Anthès. The whole royal court gossips about the relationship of Natalia with d'Anthès. These rumors reach Pushkin and he challenges d'Anthès to a duel ...
Cast
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- Yevgeni Chervyakov as Alexander Pushkin
- Irina Volodko as Natalie Pushkina
- Konstantin Karenin as Nicholas I of Russia
- Boris Tumarin as Baron d'Anthès
- Leonid Tkachov as Pyotr Vyazemsky
- Yevgenia Rosiner as Aleksandra, Nathalie's sister
- Aleksei Feona as Vasily Zhukovsky
- Ivan Lerskiy as Faddey Bulgarin
- Aleksandr Larikov as Nikita
- Olga Spirova as Yekaterina, Nathalie's sister
- Ivan Khudoleyev as Baron Alexander von Benckendorff
- Zoya Valevskaya as Idalia Poletika
- Anatoli Nelidov as Ivan Krylov
- Fyodor Lopukhov as Nikolai Gogol
- Gennadiy Michurin as Konstantin Danzas
- Yevgeni Boronikhin as Vladimir Dahl
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Charles, the barber
- Valeri Plotnikov as Baron de Heeckeren
- Mariya Dobrova as Alexandra Smirnova
- Pyotr Podvalny as viscount d'Archiac
- Yevgeniya Rogulina
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References
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Bibliography
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0018269}}
{{Vladimir Gardin}}
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Category:1920s historical drama films
Category:Soviet historical drama films
Category:1920s biographical drama films
Category:Soviet biographical drama films
Category:Soviet silent feature films
Category:1920s Russian-language films
Category:Films directed by Vladimir Gardin
Category:Films directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
Category:Films set in the 19th century
Category:Films set in the Russian Empire
Category:Cultural depictions of Nicholas I of Russia
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