Young Pushkin Explained

Young Pushkin
Director:	Abram Naroditsky
Music:	Yuri Kochurov
Cinematography:	Apollinari Dudko Aleksandr Sigaev
Runtime:	85 minutes
Country:	Soviet Union

Young Pushkin Russian: Юность поэта|Yunost poeta is a 1937 Soviet biopic film directed by Abram Naroditsky.^[1] It portrays the youth of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

Cast

• Valentin Litovsky as Alexander Pushkin ^[2]
• L. Mazin as Sergey Komovsky
• Yan Paramonov as Wilhelm Küchelbecker
• Alexander Muruzin as Ivan Pushchin
• Konstantin Smirnov as Mikhail Yakovlev
• Oleg Lipkin as Anton Delvig
• Cheslav Sushkevich as Alexander Gorchakov
• Vladimir Gardin as Mayer, the tutor
• Valentina Ivashova as Natasha
• Nina Shaternikova as Princess
• Alexander Mgebrov as Gavrila Derzhavin, the poet
• Ippolit Novskiy as Count Razumovsky, the Minister of Education
• Alexander Gromov as Foma
• Valentin Yantsat as Alexander Petrovich Kunitsyn, Professor of Law
• Emil Gal as De-Boudrie
• Georgy Kranert as Alexander I of Russia
• Sergey Karnovich-Valois as Aleksey Arakcheyev

References

1. Bartig p.189
2. http://feb-web.ru/feb/pushkin/serial/is5/is5-305-.htm Рецензия Н. Н. Ефимова

Bibliography

• Kevin Bartig. Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film. Oxford University Press, 2013.