Balakirev The Buffoon is a 2002

2002 in film

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 Russia

Russia

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n televised version of 1999 Lenkom theatrical
presentation, written by Grigori Gorin

Grigori Gorin

Grigori Israelevich Gorin was a Soviet/Russian dramatist and a prose writer.-Biography:Graduated from the Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1963, worked as an ambulanceman for some time....

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Genre - Tragic comedy. Produced by KinoMost and Winburgh Holdings Ltd. Runtime - 162 min. Language - Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

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Theatrical version directed by Mark Zakharov

Mark Zakharov

Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian theatrical director and playwright. He was also a professor of the Moscow Theatre Institute ....

, televised version by Nikolay Skuyibin.

Cinematography by Evgeniy Guslinski, Vladimir Fostenko, Alexey Naidenov, Yuli Olshvang. Stage director - Oleg Sheintsis. Composer - Sergey Rudnitskiy. Executive producer - Felix Kleiman, producer - Vladimir Dostal.

Plot summary

Buffoon of the court circle, Ivan Balakirev, is a constant participant of the Tzar's festivities and buffoonery. Under the will of the circumstances he was drawn into the intricate relations inside the court and inside the royal family...

Cast

• Oleg Yankovsky
  Oleg Yankovsky
  Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals...
  
   as Peter The Great
• Sergei Frolov
• Aleksandra Zakharova as Catherine I of Russia
  Catherine I of Russia
  Catherine I , the second wife of Peter the Great, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.-Life as a peasant woman:The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself. There are no documents that confirm her origins. Born on...
  
  
• Aleksander Lazarev
• Aleksander Zbruev as Alexander Menshikov
• Nikolay Karachentsev
• Olesya Zheleznyak
• Yuri Kolychev
• Tatyana Kravchenko
• Ludmila Artemyeva
• Ludmila Porgyna
• Igor Fokin
  Igor Fokin
  Igor Fokin was a Russian puppeteer and street performer. He learned his craft in his hometown of St. Petersburg. He moved from the then-Soviet Union to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, in 1993...
  
  

Balakirev in reality

Based on a real story set time in a Peter The Great era.

Ivan Alexandrovich Balakirev was a trusted servant of Peter I and Catherine I

Catherine I of Russia

Catherine I , the second wife of Peter the Great, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.-Life as a peasant woman:The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself. There are no documents that confirm her origins. Born on...

 since 1699. In the time of the empress Anne he became an official court buffoon.

One of the version around the Balakirev surname etymology is that it formed from Bala kire, a tatar

Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

 for stubborn kid.

Xenofont Polevoy published a book entitled Collection of anecdotes by Balakirev, using the real name of Ivan Balakirev as his pseudonim. It's in fact a collection from various people and sources.