Russia's most chaotic 16th-century road trip: one Cossack, 840 men, and ALL of Siberia.
The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.
Acting
Evstigneyev's Ivan the Terrible: unhinged, magnificent, barely blinking.
Production
Practical river battles that smell like actual 1582.
Director
Vladimir Krasnopolskiy
Viktor Stepanov
Ермак Тимофеевич
Irina Alfyorova
Алёна
Nikita Dzhigurda
Иван Кольцо
Aleksandr Karpov
Богдан Брязга
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Иван Грозный
Pyotr Velyaminov
поп Мелентий
Aleksei Kolesnik
Никита Пан
Mikhail Zhigalov
Михайла Юрьев
Aleksandra Kolkunova
Фарида
Valeri Poroshin
Михайлов
Viktor Sergachyov
Семен Строганов
Takhir Matyullin
Аника Строганов (озв. Алексей Булдаков)
Sergey Fetisov
Никита Строганов
Valentin Trushchenko
Сысой
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot partially on location near the actual Chusovaya River, where temperatures hit -40°C. The beard icicles were not CGI.
Released during Russia's 1990s identity crisis, this was state-funded nostalgia for imperial greatness—accidentally timely again.
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