Genre: Drama
Runtime: 103 min
Average vote: 3.5
Collection: Empire. The Beginning
Release date: 2003-06-21
Director: Vitali Melnikov
Writer: Vitali Melnikov
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.
Viktor Sukhoru...
as
Emperor Pavel ...
Oleg Yankovskiy
as
Count Palen
Oksana Mysina
as
Empress Mariya...
Aleksey Baraba...
as
Aleksandr
Anna Molchanova
as
Yelizaveta
Yuliya Mavrina
as
Lopukhina
Igor Shibanov
as
Kutaisov
Yevgeni Karpov
as
Konstantin
Vadim Lobanov
as
Bezborodko
Vera Karpova
as
Baroness Livsi
Aleksandr Grig...
as
Brenna
Dmitriy Sutyrin
as
Yashvil
Boris Khvoshny...
as
De Ribas
Sergey Barkovs...
as
Rogerson
Ivan Parshin
as
Valeryan Zubov
Aleksandr Tsyb...
Samvel Muzhiky...
Sergey Murzin
Artur Khariton...
Denis Agatov
Aleksey Baraba...
Vitaliy Pichik
Mikhail Dolgin...
Aleksei Kravch...
Igor Shibanov
Dmitriy Lebedev
Vadim Lobanov
Aleksandr Samo...
Pavel Kornakov
Andrey Chumanov
Evgeny Shcheti...