Biographical film "Youth of the poet", dedicated to Pushkin-Lyceum student. At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris, the film was awarded a gold medal. The Director managed to accurately recreate the historic era, to convey the atmosphere of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the years of the formation of the poetic genius of Pushkin.
Cast
Valentin Litovskiy
Aleksandr Pushkin
L. Mazin
Sergey Komovskiy
Anatoliy Muruzin
Ivan Puschin
Ivan Paramonov
Wilhelm Kuchelbecker
Cheslav Sushkevich
Aleksandr Goncharov
Oleg Lipkin
Anton Delvig
Vladimir Gardin
Gustav Meyer, lyceum's governor
Nina Shaternikova
Princess Ellen
Valentyna Ivashova
Natasha
Alexander Mgebrov
Gavrila Derzhavin
Alexandr Gromov
Foma
Valentin Yantsat
Aleksandr Kunitsyn, professor of Justice
Konstantin Gibshman
Nikolay Koshansky, professor of Russian literature
Emil Gal
David De Boudris
Vladimir Taskin
Frolov, lyceum's inspector
Ippolit Novsky-Semyonovsky
Count Razumovskiy
Georgiy Kranert
Emperor Alexander
Alexander Geirot
Engelgardt (uncredited)
Oleg Zhakov
(uncredited)
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Arakcheyev (uncredited)
Ursula Krug
Princess Ellen's maid
Georgiy Teykh
(uncredited)
Crew
Abram Naroditskiy
Director
Aleksandr Slonimskiy
Writer
Mikhail Shapiro
Editor
Alexandr Sigaev
Director of Photography
Apollinariy Dudko
Director of Photography
Adolf Bergunker
First Assistant Director
V. Gorchakov
Second Assistant Director
M. Freydin
Producer
Isaak Makhlis
Production Design
Pyotr Yakimov
Production Design
Semyon Meynkin
Production Design
A. Gavryushov
Sound Director
Yuriy Kochurov
Original Music Composer