Attack from the Sea explained
Attack from the Sea (Russian: Корабли штурмуют бастионы|Korabli shturmuyut bastiony|Ships Are Storming [[Bastion]]s) is a 1953 Soviet biographical war film directed by Mikhail Romm and starring Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadi Yudin and Vladimir Druzhnikov.[1]
The film is about the career of the Russian naval officer Fyodor Ushakov and the Siege of Corfu (1798–99). It was made by the Moscow-based Ministry of Cinematography by the production unit Mosfilm, in Agfa-color, renamed Sovcolor by Moscow. It is the sequel to Admiral Ushakov, released the same year.
Cast
- Ivan Pereverzev as Adm. Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov
- Gennadi Yudin as Capt. Dmitri Nikolayevich Senyavin
- Vladimir Druzhnikov as Capt. Vasilyev
- Aleksey Alekseev as Capt. Yegor Metaksa
- Sergei Bondarchuk as Tikhon Alexeyevich Prokofiev
- Nikolai Khryashchikov as Khovrin, old sailor
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Piroshkov
- Georgiy Yumatov as Ermolaev
- Vladimir Balashov as Capt. Grigori (Henry) Baillie
- Pavel Volkov as Medical Doctor
- Pyotr Lyubeshkin Sergey Petrov as Gen. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov
- Pavel Pavlenko as Czar Pavel I
- Nikolai Svobodin as Mordovzev
- Mikhail Nazvanov as Czar Alexander I
- Ivan Solovyov as Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Iosif Tolchanov as Lord William Hamilton
- Yelena Kuzmina as Emma Hamilton
- V. Tumanov as Foot
- Nikolay Volkov as Sir William Pitt Jr.
- Sergei Martinson as King Ferdinand
- Ada Vojtsik as Queen Carolina
- Valeriy Lekarev as Napoleon Bonaparte I
- Emmanuil Geller as Ambassador Misharu
- Evgeni Agurov as Englishman
- Pavel Shpringfeld as Orfano
- Semyon Svashenko as Russian Army officer
Bibliography
- Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Notes and References
- Rollberg p.249
