Lieutenant Kizhe
07/03/1934
1h 23m



A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Cast


Mikhail Yanshin
Tsar Pavel I


Boris Gorin-Goryainov
Count von Pahlen


Nina Shaternikova
Princess Gagarina


Sofiya Magarill
Princess Gagarina's companion


Erast Garin
Adjutant


Mikhail Rostovtsev
Fortress commandant


Leonid Kmit
Scribe


Andrei Kostrichkin
Lieutenant Sinyukhaev
Konstantin Gibshman
Chief physician


Vladimir Lepko
Count Kutaysov (uncredited)
Fedor Fedorovski
Grenadier (uncredited)
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