The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Alexandr FaintsimmerDirector
- Sergei ProkofievOriginal Music Composer
- Yury TynyanovWriter
Cast
- Mikhail YanshinTsar Pavel I
- Boris Gorin-GoryainovCount von Pahlen
- Nina ShaternikovaPrincess Gagarina
- Sofiya MagarillPrincess Gagarina's companion
- Erast GarinAdjutant
- Mikhail RostovtsevFortress commandant
- Leonid KmitScribe
- Andrei KostrichkinLieutenant Sinyukhaev
- Konstantin GibshmanChief physician
- Vladimir LepkoCount Kutaysov (uncredited)
- Fedor FedorovskiGrenadier (uncredited)
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Themes
bureaucracysoviet union