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A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". 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 Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.Read moreLess
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". 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 Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.
The story
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". 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 Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Cast & crew
Mikhail YanshinTsar Pavel I
Boris Gorin-GoryainovCount von Pahlen
Nina ShaternikovaPrincess Gagarina
Sofiya MagarillPrincess Gagarina's companion
Erast GarinAdjutant
Mikhail RostovtsevFortress commandant
Leonid KmitScribe
Andrei KostrichkinLieutenant SinyukhaevKonstantin Gibshman
Konstantin GibshmanChief physician
Vladimir LepkoCount Kutaysov (uncredited)
Fedor FedorovskiGrenadier (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Alexandr Faintsimmer
- Original Music Composer
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Director of Photography
- Arkadi Koltsaty
- Writer
- Yury Tynyanov
- Editor
- A. Setsko
- Producer
- I. Rummel