Summary Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon. View more details
Directed : Vsevolod Pudovkin Mikhail Doller
Written : Georgiy Grebner Nikolai Ravich
Stars : Nikolay P. Cherkasov Apollon Yachnitskiy Mikhail Astangov Sergey Kiligin
Genres : Drama History War Biography Documentary
Release date : Jan 22, 1941
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Language : Russian
Production companies : Mosfilm
Summary Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon. View more details
Genres : Drama History War Biography Documentary
Release date : Jan 22, 1941
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Language : Russian
Production companies : Mosfilm
