1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time

Oct 28, 2007

2h 15m

★ 5.0

The Tsar is dead. Chaos reigns.

Overview

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematograph

Renova-Media

Golden Eagle

Central Partnership

Studio Trite

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Cast

Andrei

Pyotr Kislov

Kostka

Artur Smolyaninov

Jan Skrzetuski

Michał Żebrowski

Kseniya Godunova

Violetta Davydovskaya

Prince Dmitri Pozharsky

Mikhail Porechenkov

Brigand Osina

Aleksandr Baluev

Military commander Navoloka

Marat Basharov

Alvar

Ramón Langa

Mordan

Aleksandr Samoylenko

Stylite

Valeriy Zolotukhin

Sergey Taramaev

Mute

Dmitriy Mukhamadeev

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