Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
1976Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Acted in
Vladimir Vysotsky
as Ibrahim
Aleksey Petrenko
as Czar Peter I
Irina Mazurkevich
as Natasha Rtishcheva
Semyon Morozov
as Mikhailo Govorov
Valeriy Zolotukhin
Ivan Ryzhov
as Gavrila Afanasyevich Rtishchev
Mikhail Kokshenov
as Sergunka Rtishchev
Evgeny Mitta
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Balakirev
Oleg Tabakov
as Yeguzhinskiy
Lyudmila Chursina
as Tsarina
Andrey Fayt
as Abbot
Aleksandr Barushnoy
Vladimir Kashpur
Vasiliy Kornukov
Yuri Komarov
Viktor Makhov
Vladimir Menshov
Yury Martynov
Tatyana Nepomnyashchaya
Anatoliy Obukhov
Irina Pechernikova
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Klara Rumyanova
Yelena Rubtsova
Nikolai Sergeyev
Stanislav Chekan
Leonid Chubarov
Lyudmila Davydova
Andrey Vasilev
Aleksandr Pashutin
Vilor Kuznetsov
Mariya Sapozhnikova
Valentina Klyagina
Natalya Vavilova
Andrei Gusev