Squadron of Flying Hussars

1980 film

Nikita Khubov
Stanislav Rostotsky

Written bySergei YermolinskyStarring

Andrei Rostotsky
Marina Shimanskaya
Yevgeni Lebedev
Nikolai Yeremenko Jr.
Lidiya Kuznetsova

CinematographyMikhail YakovichEdited byGalina ShatrovaMusic byAlexander Zhurbin

Production
company

Gorky Film Studio

Release date

1980 (1980)

Running time

164 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Squadron of Flying Hussars (Russian: Эскадрон гусар летучих, romanized: Eskadron gusar letuchikh) is a 1980 Soviet war film directed by Nikita Khubov and Stanislav Rostotsky.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Denis Davydov, a poet and hero, a man who became a legend during his lifetime, literally conquered his generation. Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Zhukovsky, Baratynsky and many other poets sang in their poems the military and poetic talent, tremendous charm and straightforward nobility, desperate courage and energy of the hussar and partisan, the hero of a glorious and turbulent time for Russia.^[3]

Cast

Andrei Rostotsky as Denis Davydov
Marina Shimanskaya as Catherine
Lidiya Kuznetsova as Katerina, a peasant woman
Yevgeni Lebedev as Mikhail Kutuzov
Yuri Rychkov as Popov
Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. as Prince Bolkhovsky
Andrei Syomin as Mitya Beketov
Aleksandr Karin as Mikhail Grigorievich Bedryaga
Aleksandr Zimin as Budelyok
Vladimir Mashchenko as Colonel Eichen^[4]
Ivan Krasko as Colonel Ustimovich
Igor Kashintsev as Khrapovitsky
Boris Klyuyev as French officer
Fyodor Odinokov as a partisan peasant
Igor Yasulovich as French tailor
Georgy Martirosyan as French officer (uncredited)

Songs to verses by Denis Davydov were performed by Alexander Khochinsky^[5]

References

^ Наталья Эфендиева: Ржевский против Сокурова. Пустота отечественного кинематографа
^ Кино о войне 1812 года: комиксы вышли замуж за пошлятину
^ Эскадрон гусар летучих on KinoPoisk
^ Эскадрон гусар летучих (1981) Full Cast / Crew
^ Fyodor Razzakov (5 September 2017). Гибель советского кино. Тайна закулисной войны. 1973-1991. ISBN 9785457021723. Retrieved 2015-04-02.