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 ...
Top Cast
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Nikolai P. CherkasovGen. Aleksandr Vassilievich Suvorov-Rimnikski (as N.P. Cherkasov)
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Aleksandr KhanovPlatonych, his second-in-command
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Mikhail AstangovCount Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev (as M. Astangov)
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Apollon YachnitskiyTsar Pavel I (as A. Yachnitsky)
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Georgi KovrovProkhor "Proshka" Semyonich (as G. Kovrov)
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Vsevolod AksyonovCapt. Meshchersky (as V. Aksyonov)