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"General Suvorov" (1941) — watch online on iFILM this Soviet historical drama, co-directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role.
The film covers Alexander Suvorov's final years: his running conflict with Tsar Paul I, who alternately decorated and exiled him, and his recall to command the joint Russian-Austrian armies against Napoleon. That campaign ended with a daring winter march over the Alps in 1799 — one of the most audacious maneuvers in European military history.
Pudovkin took the project on in 1941, the opening year of the war, and the timing was the point. Cherkasov plays Suvorov not as a statue but as a sharp, restless man the court bureaucracy can demote but never actually stop. Stream "General Suvorov" online on iFILM.
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