The Czar Wants to Sleep
Poruchik Kizhe
A sarcastic comedy about the Russian-Soviet bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns the ...
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Mikhail Yanshin
Tsar Pavel I
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Boris Gorin-Goryainov
Count von Pahlen
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Nina Shaternikova
Princess Gagarina
Sofiya Magarill
Princess Gagarina's companion
Erast Garin
Adjutant
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Fortress commandant
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Konstantin Gibshman
Court doctor
Vladimir Lepko
Count Kutaisov, zar's barber
Leonid Kmit
Other Count
Andrei Kostrichkin
Army scribe
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
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Arkadi Koltsaty
Cinematographer
