How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976)

Original title

Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил

Directed by

Alexander Mitta

Genre

musical film, romance film, historical film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An African godson of Peter the Great navigates court life and romance in 18th century Russia. The czar schemes to marry off his godson to a noblewoman.

livelywhimsicalromantichistoricalmusicallight-heartedgrandiose

What happens

How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (Russian: Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил, Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil) is a 1976 musical film directed by the Russian filmmaker Alexander Mitta. The film features Vladimir Vysotsky as the protagonist Abram Petrovich Gannibal, the African godson of Peter the Great. Also starring in the film are Aleksei Petrenko as Czar Peter, and Irina Mazurkevich as Natasha Rtishcheva. It is an adaptation of the book The Moor of Peter the Great by Gannibal's great-grandson Alexander Pushkin, written in 1827-1828 and published in 1837. The music for the film was written by the composer Alfred Schnittke. In 1976, the film was the sixth most popular film in the Soviet Union, being seen 33,100,000 times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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