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How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor is a 1976 musical film directed by the Russian filmmaker Alexander Mitta. The film features Vladimir Vysotsky as the protagonist Abram Petrovich Gannibal, the North African godson of Peter the Great. Also starring in the film are Aleksei Petrenko as Czar Peter, and Irina Mazurkevich as Natasha Rtishcheva. It is an adaptation of the book The Moor of Peter the Great by Gannibal's great-grandson Alexander Pushkin, written in 1827. The music for the film was written by the composer Alfred Schnittke. In 1976, the film was the sixth most popular film in the Soviet Union, being seen 33,100,000 times.
Original Release
06/06/1976
US Release
11/11/1976
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vladimir Vysotskiy | Ibragim / Ibrahim |
Aleksey Petrenko | Czar Peter I |
Ivan Ryzhov | Gavrila Afanasyevich Rtishchev |
Irina Mazurkevich | Natasha Rtishcheva |
Mikhail Kokshenov | Sergunka Rtishchev |
Yevgeni Mitta | Vanechka Rtishchev / Ванечка Ртищев |
Semyon Morozov | Mikhailo Govorov |
Valeriy Zolotukhin | Filka / Филька |
Mikhail Gluzskiy | Balakirev |
Oleg Tabakov | Yeguzhinskiy |
Directors
Writers
Aleksandr Mitta, Yuli Dunsky, Valeri Frid, Alexander Pushkin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vladimir Vysotskiy | Ibragim / Ibrahim |
Aleksey Petrenko | Czar Peter I |
Ivan Ryzhov | Gavrila Afanasyevich Rtishchev |
Irina Mazurkevich | Natasha Rtishcheva |
Mikhail Kokshenov | Sergunka Rtishchev |
Yevgeni Mitta | Vanechka Rtishchev / Ванечка Ртищев |
Semyon Morozov | Mikhailo Govorov |
Valeriy Zolotukhin | Filka / Филька |
Mikhail Gluzskiy | Balakirev |
Oleg Tabakov | Yeguzhinskiy |
Lyudmila Chursina | Tsarina |
Andrey Fayt | Abbat / Abbot |
Vladimir Menshov | Officer / офицер |
Yuri Komarov | De Kavenyak / Де Кавиньяк |
Irina Pechernikova | Luiza De Kavenyak / Луиза Де Кавиньяк |
Aleksandr Barushnoy | Diplomat / дипломат |
Vladimir Kashpur | Shipwright / корабельный плотник |
Stanislav Chekan | Marshal / маршал |
Nikolay Sergeev | Afanasij Rtishchev / Афанасий Ртищев |
Klara Rumyanova | Gavrila Rtishchev's wife / жена Гаврилы Ртищева |