Lieutenant Kizhe

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". 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 Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.

• Alexandr FaintsimmerDirector
• Sergei ProkofievOriginal Music Composer
• Yury TynyanovWriter

• 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)