Movie
1937
Peter the Great is a 1937-1938 Soviet two-part historical biographical film, shot on the Order of Lenin from Leningrad film studio Lenfilm director Vladimir Petrov on the eponymous play Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, devoted to the life and activity of the Russian Emperor Peter I.
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In the tumultuous years preceding World War II, the Stalin regime recognised the need to prepare Soviet citizens for the impending conflict through propaganda. This realisation led to a shift in focus from the utopian socialist future to the glorious past of Russia, where grand historical figures, previously portrayed as oppressive and primitive through the prism of Marxist dogma, could now be used as positive role…More
