MININ AND POZHARSKY (1939)

Minin and Pozharsky (Russian: Минин и Пожарский, romanized: Minin i Pozharskiy) is a 1939 Soviet historical drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, based on Viktor Shklovsky's novel "Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century".

The film is about the Time of Troubles, Russia's struggle for independence led by Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin against the Polish invasion in 1611–1612. It was the first of several Soviet films to show Poland as an aggressor. Note the year of its release when the Red Army, together with German troops invaded Poland; so the main purpose of Pudovkin's movie was obvious. It resembles Eisenstein's 'Alexander Nevsky' made a year before it, it is a propaganda film and an exiting movie