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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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