--- title: 'How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976)' type: 'film' director: 'Alexander Mitta' released: '1976-12-06' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' - 'History' countries: - 'Soviet Union' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-czar-peter-the-great-married-off-his-moor-1976' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075225/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) 1976 · 100 min · Music, Romance, History · Soviet Union Original title: Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил ## Synopsis How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor is a 1976 musical film directed by the Russian filmmaker Alexander Mitta. The film features Vladimir Vysotsky as the protagonist Abram Petrovich Gannibal, the African godson of Peter the Great. Also starring in the film are Aleksei Petrenko as Czar Peter, and Irina Mazurkevich as Natasha Rtishcheva. It is an adaptation of the book The Moor of Peter the Great by Gannibal's great-grandson Alexander Pushkin, written in 1827-1828 and published in 1837. The music for the film was written by the composer Alfred Schnittke. In 1976, the film was the sixth most popular film in the Soviet Union, being seen 33,100,000 times. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alexander Mitta](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-mitta) - **Screenplay:** [Alexander Mitta](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-mitta), [Valeri Frid](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeri-frid), [Yuli Dunsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuli-dunsky) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Schnittke](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-schnittke) - **Director of Photography:** [Valeri Shuvalov](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeri-shuvalov) ## Cast - [Anatoliy Obukhov](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoliy-obukhov) - [Aleksei Petrenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksei-petrenko) as Peter the Great - [Vladimir Vysotsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-vysotsky) as Abram Petrovich Gannibal - [Irina Mazurkevich](https://cinepixo.com/people/irina-mazurkevich) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-czar-peter-the-great-married-off-his-moor-1976 Film facts: Wikidata (Q4421343); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.