Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar. Events continued to spin out of control as a young monk was presented as the son Godunov had supposedly killed. Now he was openly accused of failing an assassination attempt, which seems to be even worse than succeeding. In addition to these woes, Boris Godunov began to suffer serious health problems. So much for the joys of kingship.
as Boris Godunov
as Tsarevna Kseniya
as Varlaam
as Khozyaika Korchmi
as Kurbski
as Mosalski
as Karela
as Khrushchov
as Starik
as Vasili Shuisky
as Petr Basmanov
as Pimen
as Patriarch
as Tsarevitch Fyodor
as gorozhanin na kryshe sobora
as Mamka Kseni
as Yurodivi
as Gavrila Pushkin
as Afanasi Pushkin
as Misael
as Tsaritsa Mariya
as Yuri Mnishek
as Nikolai Chernikovski
as Adam Vishnyevetski
as Semyon Godunov
as Fyodor Mstislavski
as Marzheret
as Walter Rosen
as Rozhnov
as Tsarevitch Dimitri
as Father Superior of Chudov Monastery
as Old Woman
as First policeman
as Second policeman
as Sobansky
as Boy in Shuisky's house
as Grigori Otrepyev
as Marina Mnishek
as Ivan Vorotynski
as Polish horseman
as Boyarin
as The Boyar
as Boyarin
as Василий Щелкалов
