Peter the Great (1910)

Original title

Петр Великий

Directed by

Kai Hansen, Vasily Goncharov

Genre

drama film, silent film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Russian Empire

Runtime

10 min

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent short film depicts key events from the life of Peter the Great, the Russian tsar and reformer. It shows his efforts to modernize Russia and his conflicts with the nobility.

historicaldramaticstatelyseriousold-fashionedslow-pacededucational

What happens

Peter the Great, (Russian: Пётр Великий) is a 1910 silent (Russian-language intertitles) short drama film shot by the Moscow division of the French company Pathé Frères directed by Vasili Goncharov and Kai Hansen. An incomplete reel is preserved, without intertitles. Shot in 1909, it was released on January 19 (6 O.S.), 1910. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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