Pugachev (1937 film)

Pugachev
Russian: Пугачёв
Directed byPavel Petrov-Bytov
Written byOlga Forsch
Produced byL. Yanchenko
Starring
  • Konstantin Skorobogatov
  • Kasim Mukhutdinov
  • Yakov Malyutin
  • Vladimir Gardin
  • Matvey Pavlikov
CinematographyAnatoly Nazarov
Music byVissarion Shebalin
Production
company
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
Running time
101 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Pugachev (Russian: Пугачёв, romanized: Pugachyov) is a 1937 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

Don Cossack Pugachev, leader of the Peasant war of 1773–1775 in Russia. Using rumors that the Emperor Peter III of Russia was alive, Pugachev called himself him; he was one of several dozen impostors posing as Peter, and the most famous of them.

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