Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
Directed by Vitaliy Melnikov
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Cast
Viktor Sukhorukov
Emperor Pavel the First
Oleg Yankovskiy
Count Palen
Oksana Mysina
Empress Mariya Fyodorovna
Aleksey Barabash
Aleksandr
Anna Molchanova
Yelizaveta
Yuliya Mavrina
Lopukhina
Igor Shibanov
Kutaisov
Yevgeni Karpov
Konstantin
Vadim Lobanov
Bezborodko
Vera Karpova
Baroness Livsi
Aleksandr Grigoryants
Brenna
Dmitriy Sutyrin
Yashvil
Boris Khvoshnyanskiy
De Ribas
Sergey Barkovsky
Rogerson
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