Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding

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Romance

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Peter 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.

Date: 06/06/1976

Rating: 5.5

Cast: Vladimir Vysotsky, Aleksey Petrenko, Irina Mazurkevich, Semyon Morozov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Ivan Ryzhov, Mikhail Kokshenov, Evgeny Mitta, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Chursina, Andrey Fayt, 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

Vladimir Vysotsky