THE TEMPEST (1958). With Russian subitiles.

La tempesta (internationally released as Tempest) is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is based on A History of Pugachev (1834) and the 1836 novel The Captain's Daughter, both by Alexander Pushkin.

TEMPEST (1958) is an Italian-French-German co-production based Alexander Pushkin's history of Pugachev and his Novela, THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER. In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.

PLOT:
In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II. Grinov, a privileged soldier in Catherine The Great's Guards of 1770, is sent to a distant post for disciplinary reasons. On he way there, he picks up a half frozen man and revives him. At the new garrison he falls in love with Masha, the Captain's daughter. Against orders he fights a duel with over Masha . The man whose life he saved earlier is Pugachev, who had been uniting the Russian Cossacks in uprisings to over throw Catherine.

CAST:
Silvana Mangano as Masha
Van Heflin as Yemelyan Pugachev
Viveca Lindfors as Catherine II
Geoffrey Horne as Piotr Grinov
Vittorio Gassman as Prosecutor
Agnes Moorehead as Vassilissa Mironova
Robert Keith as Capt. Mironov
Oskar Homolka as Savelic
Finlay Currie as Count Grinov
Laurence Naismith as Maj. Zurin
Helmut Dantine as Svabrin
Fulvia Franco as Palaska
Aldo Silvani as Pope Gerasim
Claudio Gora as Minister of Caterine II
Guido Celano as the farmer
Cristina Gaioni as the young girl