Boris Godunov (Film 1986 - Part 1)

Boris Godunov is a 1986 drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. It is an adaptation of the 1825 play Boris Godunov, written by Alexander Pushkin. Audio in Russian with English subtitles (Click on CC).

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The action takes place in Russia and Poland as the 16th century ends and the 17th century begins. The reign of Boris Godunov is depicted, his son Feodor, and the coming to power of False Dmitry I. After the death of the feeble-minded Tsar Fedor Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov takes the throne, by the decision of the Zemsky Sobor, with the help of intrigues, alliances and the arrangement of his sister Irina's marriage to Tsarevich Feodor, gains great influence and power in the court.

The picture was co-produced by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast & Characters:
Sergei Bondarchuk as Boris Godunov
Alyona Bondarchuk as tsarevna Xenia Godunova
Gennady Mitrofanov as fool for Christ
Roman Filippov as Patriarch Job of Moscow
Valery Storozhik as prince Dmitry Kurbsky
Yuri Lazarev as Gavrila Pushkin
Vladimir Sedov as Afanasy Pushkin
Georgi Burkov as Barlaam
Vadim Aleksandrov as Misael
Irina Skobtseva as tavern hostess
Kira Golovko as nurse of Xenia
Lyudmila Korshakova as tsaritsa Maria Skuratova-Belskaya
Fyodor Bondarchuk as tsarevitch Theodore Godunov
Henryk Machalica as Jerzy Mniszech
Olgierd Łukaszewicz as Mikołaj Czernikowski
Marian Dziędziel as Adam Wiśniowiecki
Vladimir Novikov as Semyon Godunov
Valeriy Sheptekita as Father Superior of Chudov Monastery