Stalin commissioned this Soviet epic to dunk on Napoleon before the Allies could.
Production
Massive battle recreations with thousands of Red Army extras
Acting
Dikiy's Kutuzov: part saint, part sleepy-eyed chess master
Director
Vladimir Petrov
Aleksey Dikiy
Кутузов
Semyon Mezhinsky
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky
Marshal Berthier
Sergo Zakariadze
Prince Bagration
Nikolai Okhlopkov
Gen. Barclay de Tolly
Nikolai Brilling
Marshal Murat
Boris Chirkov
Lavilov
Mikhail Pugovkin
Fedya
Nikolai Ryzhov
Волконский
Osip Abdulov
French general (uncredited)
Ivan Skuratov
Zhestyannikov
Vladimir Uralskiy
General
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during WWII, this was blatant morale-boosting propaganda—Kutuzov defeating Napoleon mirrored Stalin's desired narrative against Hitler.
The Red Army provided 12,000 soldiers as extras; some were reportedly pulled directly from the front lines.
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