Vasily Livanov’s historical movie carries the viewer back into the 18th century and tells the story of the monument to Peter the Great through Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s poem «The Bronze Horseman». The sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet comes from France at the invitation of the Empress Ekaterina the 2nd to erect the monument. Thanks to the master’s meticulous work and painstaking creative search the monument has become not only a masterpiece of art but one of the symbols of Russia.
as Ekaterina II
as Yury Matveevich Felten, architect
as Etienne Falcone, sculptor
as Marie-Anne Collot, Falcone's student
as Fontaine, carver
as Lascari, captain
as Grigory Potemkin
as Grigory Korchebnikov
as Varenka
