Malcolm McDowell commanding troops in Liechtenstein? This forgotten war story is WILD.
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
Acting
McDowell's restrained authority vs. his usual chaos
Direction
Enrico squeezes tension from diplomatic meetings
Production
Convincing micro-state claustrophobia on budget
Director
Robert Enrico
Malcolm McDowell
General Smyslovsky
Pierre Vaneck
doktor Josef Hoop, premier rządu Liechtensteinu
Jean-François Balmer
Père Siegler
Ludmila Mikaël
kapitan Barinkova
Wojciech Pszoniak
pułkownik Lew Czeko
Catherine Frot
Martha Hubner
Clémentine Célarié
Anna
Jan Jankowski
Jurij Nikolskoj, żołnierz Smyslowskiego
Andrzej Zieliński
porucznik Michaił Sochin, adiutant Smyslowskiego
Lech Dyblik
Aleksandr Wiktorowicz Krasow, żołnierz Smyslowskiego
Witold Dębicki
Klaus, członek parlamentu Liechtensteinu
Jan Jurewicz
adiutant Czekowa
Jowita Budnik
Liza
Jacek Lenartowicz
kapitan Walerian Klimienko
Ryszard Dreger
członek rodziny Brandtów
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Liechtenstein's real government archives were opened to the production—the first time this story had official state cooperation.
The 1st Russian National Army's survival remains one of WWII's least-known diplomatic miracles; most Western audiences have never heard of this principality's defiance of Stalin.
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