Attack from the Sea (russian: Корабли штурмуют бастионы, Korabli shturmuyut bastiony) is a 1953 Soviet

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directed by Mikhail Romm and starring

Ivan Pereverzev Ivan Fyodorovich Pereverzev (russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Переве́рзев; 3 September 1914 – 23 April 1978) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1975). Filmography * '' The Convey ...

Gennadi Yudin Gennady Petrovich Yudin (russian: Геннадий Петрович Юдин; 27 March 1923, Moscow – 13 November 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Laureate of Stalin Prize (1951). Filmography * ''The Russian Question ...

and

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.Rollberg p.249 The film is about the career of the Russian naval officer

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and the

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. It was made by the Moscow-based Ministry of Cinematography by the production unit

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, in Agfa-color, renamed Sovcolor by Moscow. It is the sequel to ''

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'', released the same year.

Cast

as Adm. Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov *

as Capt. Dmitri Nikolayevich Senyavin *

as Capt. Vasilyev * Aleksey Alekseev as Capt. Yegor Metaksa *

Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...

as Tikhon Alexeyevich Prokofiev *

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as Khovrin, old sailor *

Mikhail Pugovkin Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; July 13, 1923, Rameshki, Chukhlomsky District of Kostroma Oblast — July 25, 2008, Moscow) (aged 85) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People' ...

as Piroshkov *

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as Ermolaev *

Vladimir Balashov Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukr ...

as Capt. Grigori Belli *

Pavel Volkov Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...

as Medical Doctor * Pyotr Lyubeshkin * Sergey Petrov as Gen. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov *

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as Czar Pavel I *

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as Mordovzev * Mikhail Nazvanov as Czar Alexander I *

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as Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson *

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as Lord William Hamilton * Yelena Kuzmina as Emma Hamilton * V. Tumanov as Foot * Nikolay Volkov as Sir William Pitt Jr. *

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as King Ferdinand *

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as Queen Carolina *

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as Napoleon Bonaparte I *

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as Ambassador Misharu *

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as Spencer Smith * G. Rozhdestvensky as Mordovtsev * Evgeni Agurov as Englishman * Georgiy Budarov *

Lev Fenin Lev may refer to: Common uses *Bulgarian lev, the currency of Bulgaria *an abbreviation for Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Torah People and fictional characters *Lev (given name) *Lev (surname) Places *Lev, Azerbaijan, a ...

* Lev Frichinsky as Turchaninov * Nikolai Kryukov *

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* Georgi Shapovalov as Russian Army officer * Pavel Shpringfeld as Orfano * Semyon Svashenko as Russian Army officer

References

Bibliography

* Rollberg, Peter. ''Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1950s war drama films Soviet war drama films Russian war drama films 1950s biographical drama films Soviet biographical drama films Russian biographical drama films 1950s Russian-language films Films directed by Mikhail Romm Films scored by Aram Khachaturian Films set in 1798 Films set in 1799 Films set in the 19th century Films set in Greece Seafaring films Depictions of Napoleon on film Cultural depictions of Horatio Nelson Cultural depictions of Paul I of Russia Cultural depictions of William Pitt the Younger {{bio-film-stub