Attack from the Sea () is a 1953 Soviet biographical war film directed by Mikhail Romm and starring Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadi Yudin and Vladimir Druzhnikov.
The film is about the career of the Russian naval officer Fyodor Ushakov and the Siege of Corfu (1798–99). It was made by the Moscow-based Ministry of Cinematography by the production unit Mosfilm, in Agfa-color, renamed Sovcolor by Moscow. It is the sequel to Admiral Ushakov, released the same year.
Cast
Ivan Pereverzev as Adm. Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov
Gennadi Yudin as Capt. Dmitri Nikolayevich Senyavin
Vladimir Druzhnikov as Capt. Vasilyev
Aleksey Alekseev as Capt. Yegor Metaksa
Sergei Bondarchuk as Tikhon Alexeyevich Prokofiev
Nikolai Khryashchikov as Khovrin, old sailor
Mikhail Pugovkin as Piroshkov
Georgiy Yumatov as Ermolaev
Vladimir Balashov as Capt. Grigori (Henry) Baillie
Pavel Volkov as Medical Doctor
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Sergey Petrov as Gen. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov
Pavel Pavlenko as Czar Pavel I
Nikolai Svobodin as Mordovzev
Mikhail Nazvanov as Czar Alexander I
Ivan Solovyov as Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson
Iosif Tolchanov as Lord William Hamilton
Yelena Kuzmina as Emma Hamilton
V. Tumanov as Foot
Nikolay Volkov as Sir William Pitt Jr. Sergei Martinson as King Ferdinand Ada Vojtsik as Queen Carolina Valeriy Lekarev as Napoleon Bonaparte I Emmanuil Geller as Ambassador Misharu Boris Bibikov as Spencer Smith G. Rozhdestvensky as Mordovtsev Evgeni Agurov as Englishman Georgiy Budarov Lev Fenin Lev Frichinsky as Turchaninov Nikolai Kryukov Gotlib Roninson Georgi Shapovalov as Russian Army officer Pavel Shpringfeld as Orfano Semyon Svashenko as Russian Army officer
References
Bibliography
Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.