All the King's Men (1971 film)

Вся королевская рать
Directed by	Naum Ardashnikov, Aleksandr Gutkovich
Written by	Aleksandr Gutkovich
Starring	Georgiy Zhzhonov; Mikhail Kozakov; Oleg Yefremov; Alla Demidova; Rostislav Plyatt
Music by	Roman Ledenyov
Cinematography	Alfredo Alvarez, Naum Ardashnikov
Production; company	Byelorussian TV
Release date	1971;
Running time	196 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

All The King's Men (Russian: Vsya korolevskaya rat', Вся королевская рать) is a 1971 Soviet TV mini-series, adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel of the same name.

Title

The movie's title matches that of the Russian translation of Warren's novel: Вся королевская рать, literally Whole King's Host. Just like in the source material, it's a line from the famous nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, translated by Samuil Marshak.

History

Robert Penn Warren's novel, published in Russian in 1968, immediately attracted the attention of the reading public. In Soviet cinematographic circles, the idea of film adaptation immediately arose. Application for the film adaptation almost simultaneously filed Stanislav Rostotsky from Mosfilm and Alexander Gutkovich in Gosteleradio BSSR. The question was decided in favor of the Belarusian version because of the personal involvement of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Belarus Pyotr Masherov.

The film was shot by Belarusian television on the basis of the Mosfilm Studio. Most of the film was shot in Klaipeda and Palanga. After the shooting was finished, Gutkovich as a result of behind-the-scenes intrigues was suspended from cutting. Cutting was entrusted to Naum Ardashnikov, who shot the film as a Director of photography.

Cast

Mikhail Kozakov, as Jack Burden
Georgiy Zhzhonov, as Willie Stark
Rostislav Plyatt, as Judge Irwin
Tatyana Lavrova, as Sadie Burke
Alla Demidova, as Anne Stanton
Oleg Yefremov, as Adam Stanton
Boris Ivanov, as Tiny Duffy
Lev Durov, as Sugar Boy
Anatoli Papanov, as Burden Sr.
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, as Larson
Aleksandra Klimova, as Mrs. Burden
Valentina Kalinina, as Lucy Stark
Valery Khlevinski, as Tom Stark
Ada Wójcik, as Mrs. Littlepaugh
Yevgeni Kuznetsov, as Dr. Bland
Stepan Birillo, as Hugh Miller
Sergey Tseits, as Byram White

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