Peter the Great
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About Peter the Great
The short runs through key events in the life of Peter the Great. Pyotr Voinov plays the adult tsar and Vladimir Markov the young Peter. Vasili Goncharov and Kai Hansen directed it for the Moscow branch of Pathé Frères. It was shot in 1909 and released on January 6, 1910, Old Style, January 19 New Style. An incomplete reel survives, without intertitles.
Cast & crew
More about Peter the Great
Goncharov is the writer on Wikidata, Georges Meyer photographed it, and Wikidata lists 10 minutes. The English page gives no scene list beyond the key events of Peter's life. Trubetskaya plays Catherine I, and the surviving reel has no intertitles.
Themes
Background
Pathé's Moscow unit shot the short in 1909, a year before the January 1910 release.
Look
Georges Meyer photographed the Pathé Moscow short.
Preservation
An incomplete reel is preserved, and it has no intertitles.
Notes
- The release date is given as January 19 (6 Old Style), 1910.
- The surviving reel has no intertitles, though the original used Russian titles.
- A. Gorbachevskiy plays Boyar Latyshkin and Ye. Talanova the tsarina-mother.
- No Commons file is in the catalog.
