Comedy Drama History
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Directed by
Alexandr Faintsimmer
Written by
Yury Tynyanov
Erast Garin
Adjutant
Mikhail Yanshin
Tsar Pavel I
Leonid Kmit
Scribe
Sofiya Magarill
Princess Gagarina's companion
Boris Gorin-Goryainov
Count von Pahlen
Andrei Kostrichkin
Lieutenant Sinyukhaev
Vladimir Lepko
Count Kutaysov (uncredited)
Nina Shaternikova
Princess Gagarina
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Fortress commandant
Konstantin Gibshman
Chief physician
Fedor Fedorovski
Grenadier (uncredited)

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