General Suvorov (1941) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1941 · 100 mins · Russian

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Directed by

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller

Starring

Aleksandr Antonov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Viktor Plotnikov, Viktor Lazarev, Yevgeny Gurov, Apollon Yachnitskiy

A biographical documentary tracing the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, the celebrated Field Marshal who served under Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many victories he clashed with Paul over army reforms, retired and wrote *The Science of Victory* with maxims such as “Swiftness of movement accompanies victory” and “the real general defeats the enemy before meeting him.” The czar later recalled him to lead the Russo‑Austrian army against Napoleon.