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Lieutenant Kijé (1934)
Directed by Alexandr Faintsimmer
Comedy, Drama, History · 1h 23m
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". 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 Kijé 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
K
Konstantin Gibshman
Chief physician
Vladimir Lepko
Count Kutaysov (uncredited)
Fedor Fedorovski
Grenadier (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Alexandr Faintsimmer
- Writer
- Yury Tynyanov
- Director of Photography
- Arkadi Koltsaty
- Original Music Composer
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Editor
- A. Setsko
- Producer
- I. Rummel
Details
- Original title
- Поручик Киже
- Release date
- 1934-03-07
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Belgoskino