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Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov is a 1986 drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. It is an adaptation of the 1825 play Boris Godunov, written by Alexander Pushkin. The picture was co-produced by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The action takes place in Russia and Poland as the 16th century ends and the 17th century begins. The reign of Boris Godunov is depicted, his son Feodor, and the coming to power of False Dmitry I. After the death of the feeble-minded Tsar Fedor Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov takes the throne, by the decision of the Zemsky Sobor, with the help of intrigues, alliances and the arrangement of his sister Irina's marriage to Tsarevich Feodor, gains great influence and power in the court.
Awards
Cast
- Adrianna Biedrzyńska
- Aleksandr Solovyov
- Alyona Bondarchuk
- Anatoliy Romashin
- Anatoly Vasiliev
- Anatoly Vasilyev
- Boris Khimichev
- Fyodor Bondarchuk
- Georgi Burkov
- Henryk Machalica
- Irina Skobtseva
- Ivan Lapikov
- Jan J. Vágner
- Kira Golovko
- Lyudmila Polyakova
- Marian Dziędziel
- Norbert Kuchinke
- Olga Anokhina
- Olgierd Łukaszewicz
- Roman Filippov
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- Vadim Aleksandrov
- Valentin Golubenko
- Valentyn Makarov
- Viktor Smirnov
- Vladimir Sedov
- Vyacheslav Butenko
- Yevgeny Samoylov
- Yuriy Dumchev