Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
Viktor Sukhorukov
Oleg Yankovskiy
Oksana Mysina
Aleksey Barabash
Anna Molchanova
Yuliya Mavrina
Igor Shibanov
Yevgeni Karpov
Vadim Lobanov
Vera Karpova
Aleksandr Grigoryants
Dmitriy Sutyrin
Boris Khvoshnyanskiy
Sergey Barkovsky
Ivan Parshin
Aleksandr Tsybulsky
Samvel Muzhikyan
Sergey Murzin
Artur Kharitonenko
Denis Agatov
Aleksey Barabash
Vitaliy Pichik
Mikhail Dolginin
Aleksei Kravchenko
Igor Shibanov
Dmitriy Lebedev
Vadim Lobanov
Aleksandr Samokhin
Pavel Kornakov
Andrey Chumanov
Evgeny Shchetinin