Film

The Prince and the Pauper

1985 · 2h 28m · Adventure · Comedy · Music

A play by Sergei Mikhalkov based on the story by Mark Twain, staged by the Moscow Art Academic Theatre named after M. Gorky. London, mid-16th century. Two boys are born on the same day — Tom, the son of a thief, John Canty, living in a foul alley called the Court of Filth, and Edward, the heir to King Henry VIII. All of England awaits Edward's birth. Tom, on the other hand, is barely wanted even by his own family.

Nina Kilimnik

Vitaly Belyakov

Tatiana Glebova

Vsevolod Abdulov

Sergey Kolesnikov

Mikhail Basov

Vladimir Troshin

Konstantin Gradopolov

Vasiliy Kornukov

Yuriy Mochalov

Petr Smidovich

Lyubov Martynova

Elena Naumkina

Lidiya Shpara

Dmitriy Brusnikin

Aleksandr Zharkov

• Nikolai AleksandrovichDirector
• Les TanyukDirector
• Sergey MikhalkovWriter
• Evgeniy RusakovDirector of Photography

Release date

November 17, 1985

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 28m

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Music, TV Movie