Cruiser 'Varyag' Explained

Cruiser 'Varyag'
Native Name:	Russian: Крейсер «Варяг»
Director:	Viktor Eisymont
Producer:	Pavel Danilyants
Cinematography:	Bentsion Monastyrsky
Runtime:	92 min.
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian
Studio:	Soyuzdetfilm

Cruiser 'Varyag' (Russian: Крейсер «Варяг»|Kreiser Varyag ) is a 1946 Soviet war film directed by Viktor Eisymont.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Plot

January 27, 1904 the command of the Japanese squadron, which approached the neutral Korean port Chemulpo, offers Russian ships — cruiser Varyag and gunboat Korietz — to leave the port. Russian sailors, not receiving support from the commanders of ships of foreign powers, decide to go to sea and fight the Japanese squadron.^[4]

Cast

• Boris Livanov as Rudnev, Commander of the Cruiser the 'Varyag'
• Aleksandr Zrazhevsky as Belyaev, Commander of the Canon Boat the 'Korietz'
• Nikolai Chaplygin as Bobylev
• Vyacheslav Novikov as Antonych
• Vsevolod Larionov as Dorofeyev
• Georgy Petrovsky as Pavlov
• Nadir Malishevsky as Musatov
• Mikhail Sadovsky as Muromsky
• Lev Sverdlin as Japan consul
• Nikolai Bubnov as Father Paisy
• Sergei Tsenin as French Commander
• Lev Potyomkin as Korean postman
• Rostislav Plyatt as Beily.^[5]
• Yulia Tsay as Marusya
• as Marine Officer^[6]

Awards

• Stalin Prize (1947)

External links

• • Cruiser 'Varyag' on KinoPoisk
• Kreiser Varyag on YouTube, Russian language only

Notes and References

1. http://tass.ru/info/3457704 Крейсер «Аврора». Досье
2. https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/142413 Матроса из Татарии награждали Николай II и советское правительство
3. http://old.cultradio.ru/doc.html?id=285432&cid=44 Илья Хотиненко снимет фильм «Варяг»
4. http://ruspioner.ru/cool/m/single/5476 Спасайся, «Варяг»
5. http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/plyatt/index1.html Биография Ростислава Плятта
6. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177893/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Крейсер «Варяг» (1947) Full Cast & Crew