Overview

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.

Genres

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Aleksandr Suvorov

Apollon Yachnitskiy

Pavel I

Mikhail Astangov

Aleksei Arakcheev

Sergey Kiligin

Pyotr Bagration

Vsevolod Aksyonov

Meshcherski

Aleksandr Khanov

Platonych

Georgi Kovrov

Prokhor Dubasov

Aleksandr Antonov

colonel Tyurin

Aleksandr Smirnov

Aleksey Gorchakov (uncredited)

Galina Frolova

Peasant woman (uncredited)

Anatoliy Solovyov

Ivan Sinitsa (uncredited)

Galina Kravchenko

Lopukhina (uncredited)