At the Beginning of Glorious Days

At the Beginning of Glorious Days
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
Directed by	Sergey Gerasimov
Screenplay by	Sergey Gerasimov; Yuri Kavtaradze
Starring	Dmitri Zolotukhin; Tamara Makarova; Natalya Bondarchuk; Nikolai Yeremenko Jr.; Mikhail Nozhkin; Boris Khmelnitsky; Lyubov Germanova; Ivan Lapikov; Lyubov Polekhina; Marina Levtova
Cinematography	Sergey Filippov, Horst Hardt
Music by	Vladimir Martynov
Production; company	Gorky Film Studio
Distributed by	Russian Cinema Council
Release date	1980 (USSR);
Running time	134 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (Russian: В начале славных дел, romanized: V nachale slavnykh del) is the second part of a two-part film that started with The Youth of Peter the Great. Both parts were released in the Soviet Union in 1980 and are based on a novel, Peter I, written by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film was directed by Russian director Sergei Gerasimov.^[1] The movie is considered to be a classic of Russian historical cinema.^[2]

Synopsis

In late 17th-century Russia, Czar Peter the Great orders an attack on Turkey, which refuses to pay taxes to the Russian government. The Russian military is equipped with outdated technology, and they suffer their first defeat. After the defeat the czar orders the building of a fleet, and sends many educated men to study in Germany, France, and Holland. Russian victory over Turkey will not only force the Turks to pay taxes, but also make the Sea of Azov accessible to the Russians.

Cast

Dmitri Zolotukhin — Peter the Great
Tamara Makarova — Natalya Naryshkina
Aleksandr Belyavskiy — Lev Naryshkin, Peter's uncle
Natalya Bondarchuk — Czarevna Sophia
Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. — Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov
Mikhail Nozhkin — Knyaz Boris Alexeyevich Galitzine
Boris Khmelnitsky — Kuzma Chermnyi
Lyubov Germanova — Eudoxia Lopukhina
Ivan Lapikov — Zhemov
Lyubov Polekhina — Sanka Brovkina
Marina Levtova — Olga Bulnosova
Yekaterina Vasilyeva — Antonida Bulnosova
Pyotr Glebov — Gypsy
Marina Golub — Verka
Muza Krepkogorskaya — Sparrow caregiver
Yury Moroz — Alyosha Brovkin
Peter Reusse — Franz Lefort
Eduard Bocharov — Merchant Ivan Brovkin
Anatoli Barantsev — Nikita Zotov
Roman Filippov — Fyodor Romodanovsky
Vladimir Kashpur — Ovdokim
Nikolai Grinko — Starets Nektari

References

^ At the Beginning of Glorious Days at IMDb
^ "Энциклопедия отечественного кино". Archived from the original on 2017-07-14. Retrieved 2017-07-02.

External links

At the Beginning of Glorious Days at IMDb
At the beginning of glorious days Russian Cinema Council catalogue

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[1] At the Beginning of Glorious Days at IMDb

[2] "Энциклопедия отечественного кино". Archived from the original on 2017-07-14. Retrieved 2017-07-02.

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