Peter the Great (1937)
Note: this print runs 76 minutes against a recorded 194 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Nikolai Simonov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Mikhail Zharov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Directed by Vladimir Petrov
Peter the Great (Russian: Пётр Первый, romanized: Pyotr pervyy) is a 1937-1938 Soviet two-part historical biographical film, shot on the Order of Lenin from Leningrad film studio Lenfilm director Vladimir Petrov on the eponymous play Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, devoted to the life and activity of the Russian Emperor Peter I.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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