Moscow Saga
| Moscow Saga | |
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| Directed by | Dmitry Barschevsky |
| Produced by | Anton Barschevsky |
| Written by | Natalya Violina |
| Starring |
Yuri Solomin Inna Churikova Alexander Baluev |
| Music by | Alexander Zhurbin |
| Cinematography | Krasimir Kostov |
Production company |
Risk Film and Video Studio |
| Distributed by | Channel One Russia |
Release date |
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Running time | 1144 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Moscow Saga (Russian: Московская сага) is a Russian television series, loosely based on the eponymous trilogy Vasily Aksyonov. The shooting took place in the winter and spring of 2004, the premiere took place from 11 October to 12 November 2004 on Channel One Russia. [1]
Plot
The movie shows the fate of a family medicine professor Boris Nikitich Gradov since the mid-1920s to mid-1950s against the background of the new history of the Soviet state.
Boris Nikitich Gradov, Professor of Medicine, one of the outstanding Soviet surgeons, representative of the dynasty of Russian doctors. The sons and daughter of the surgeon did not continue the family tradition by choosing other professions. The eldest son became a military Nikita, Kirill, theoretician of Marxism, daughter Nina — writer.[2]
Cast[3]
- Yuri Solomin as Boris Nikitich Gradov
- Inna Churikova as Mary Gradova
- Alexander Baluev as Nikita Gradov
- Ekaterina Nikitina as Veronica Gradova
- Alexey Zuev as Kirill Gradov
- Olga Budina as Nina Gradova
- Alexey Kortnev as Vadim Vuinovich
- Kristina Orbakaite as Vera Gorda (prototype — singer Nina Dorda)
- Dmitry Kharatyan as Shevchuk (guard in the Gulag)
- Marianna Schultz as Celia Rosenblum
- Victoria Tolstoganova as Tasia Pyzhykova
- Andrei Smirnov as Leonid Pulkovo
- Sergei Bezrukov as Vasily Stalin
- Marina Yakovleva as Agasha
- Alexander Rezalin as Nugzar
- Igor Bochkin as Petukhov
- Ilya Noskov as Boris Gradov IV
- Dmitry Ulyanov as Semyon Stroilo
- Elena Kasyanova as Mayka Strepetova
- Irina Kupchenko as Mayka's mother
- Marina Shvydkaya as Elizaveta
- Andrey Ilin as Savva Kitaygorodsky
- Valery Ivakov as Vaskov
- Vladimir Mironov as Joseph Stalin
- Igor Sklyar as Mikhail Frunze
- Pavel Remezov as Molotov
- Alexei Makarov as Alexander Sheremetyev
- Vitaly Egorov as Sandro Pevzner
- Anna Snatkina as Yolka Kitaygorodskaya
- Vladimir Dolinsky as Shaytis
- Irina Brazgovka as Leonid Pulkovo's beloved
- Mikhail Yefremov as party organizer of the medical institute
- Tatiana Samoilova as Professor
- Vyacheslav Shalevich as General
- Regimantas Adomaitis as journalist Reston
- Emilyano Ochagaviya as Galaktion Gudiashvili
- Nana Mchedlidze as Keke, Stalin's mother
- Alexey Bysh as Obersturmbannfuehrer