Pugachev (1937 film)

Pugachev
Russian: Пугачёв
Directed by	Pavel Petrov-Bytov
Written by	Olga Forsch
Produced by	L. Yanchenko
Starring	Konstantin Skorobogatov Kasim Mukhutdinov Yakov Malyutin Vladimir Gardin Matvey Pavlikov
Cinematography	Anatoly Nazarov
Music by	Vissarion Shebalin
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1937 (1937)
Running time	101 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Pugachev (Russian: Пугачёв, romanized: Pugachyov) is a 1937^[1][2] Soviet biographical drama film directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.^[3]

Don Cossack Pugachev, leader of the Peasant war of 1773–1775 in Russia. Using rumors that the Emperor Peter III of Russia was alive, Pugachev called himself him; he was one of several dozen impostors posing as Peter, and the most famous of them.