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General Suvorov 1941 Directed by Mikhail Doller , Vsevolod Pudovkin Суворов

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gneres Drama , History
Production Company Mosfilm
Release Date 23 January 1941
100 mins
Cast
Nikolai P. Cherkasov Gen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
Aleksandr Khanov Platonych, his second-in-command
Mikhail Astangov Count Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
Apollon Yachnitskiy Tsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
Georgi Kovrov Prokhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
Vsevolod Aksyonov Capt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)
Aleksandr Antonov Col. Tyurin (as A. Antonov)
Sergey Kiligin Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
Yevgeny Gurov Franz von Weyrother
Aleksandr Smirnov Aleksey Gorchakov
Nikolai Arsky Mikhail Miloradovich