The Poet and the Tsar (1927)
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel.
- Released
- 1927-09-20
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeni Chervyakov
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Yevgeni Chervyakov as Aleksandr Pushkin
- Irina Volodko as Natalie Pushkina
- Konstantin Karenin as Nikolas the I'st
- Boris Tamarin as Baron Dantes
- Leonid Tkachyov as Vyasemskiy
- Aleksandr Larikov as Nikita
- Ivan Khudoleyev as Baron Benkendorf
- Aleksei Feona as Zhukovskiy
- Gennadi Michurin as Danzas
- Ivan Lerskiy as Bulgarin
- Yevgeni Boronikhin as Dal
- Zoya Valevskaya as Poletika