1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007) on Netflix
NR20072h 15mAdventureDramaHistory
The tsar is dead and many claim the throne, but the heir Kseniya Godunova is married to a Polish commander who would rule through her. Andrei, a serf, means to save her.
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Plot summary
Russia after the fall of the Rurik dynasty is a country of disorder, famine and Polish invasion. As a boy Andrei served at the court of Tsar Boris Godunov and saw the tsar's family murdered on the orders of plotting boyars; he was then sold into slavery. Seven years on a Spanish mercenary buys him to fight in the Polish army. When robbers kill the mercenary, Andrei and his friend Kostka, serfs without a master, face hanging, so Andrei takes his dead master's clothes and name and passes as a Spanish knight. The Polish lord Kybowsky hires him for a march on Moscow, where Kybowsky intends to raise Kseniya Godunova to the throne. On the way Andrei shields a Russian girl from the Polish soldiers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film departs from the history it depicts: it shows Polish troops being thrown back from Moscow, though they actually held the city for two years, and Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who organised the uprising that expelled the Polish-Lithuanian forces, appear only briefly.
