The Youth of Peter the Great

The Youth of Peter the Great
Directed bySergey Gerasimov
Screenplay bySergey Gerasimov
Yuri Kavtaradze
StarringDmitri Zolotukhin
Tamara Makarova
Natalya Bondarchuk
Nikolai Yeremenko Jr.
Mikhail Nozhkin
Boris Khmelnitsky
Lyubov Germanova
Ivan Lapikov
Lyubov Polekhina
Marina Levtova
CinematographySergey Filippov, Horst Hardt
Music byVladimir Martynov
Production
company
Distributed byRussian Cinema Council
Release date
  • 1980 (1980) (USSR)
Running time
140 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Youth of Peter the Great (Russian: Юность Петра, romanizedYunost Petra) is a first part of a two-part film, which was based on a novel Peter I, written by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film was directed by a famous Russian director Sergei Gerasimov. The movie is considered to be a classic of Russian historical cinema.[1]