# Lieutenant Kizhe restored

Poruchik Kizhe - Пору́чик Киже́ ( Lieutenant Kijé ) (1934) Aka: The Czar Wants to Sleep With subtitles Revised 2018 – frames edited, better flicker removal To get subtitles, click on the second version, and then on the CC icon. This is a delightful comedy about a fictional Lt. Kizhe who came about because of a scribe’s copying mistake. The officials were afraid to embarrass the Czar, so they created a fictional Kizhe who served as a convenient scapegoat. After being whipped, exiled, returned, married, and promoted Kizhe finally had to die when the Czar wanted to meet him. This is the first movie with a Prokofiev film score, so it is an important historical document and should be considered a classic. But it is also a very enjoyable comedy. The music from the film was subsequently recycled by Prokofiev into the popular Lieutenant Kijé suite. The story originated with a family story recounted in Vladimir Dahl's "Rasskazy o vremenakh Pavla I" ("Stories of the time of Paul I") in the journal Russkaya starina in 1870. Iit was expanded by Yury Tynyanov into a novella and movie with added fictional events. The score was provided by Prokofiev, while abroad, as segments that could be inserted and repeated as needed. Later it was recycled by Prokofiev into the popular Lt. Kijé suite. Kijé is the French transliteration, but Kizhe is correct for English. The story parodied Paul I, the son of Catherine the Great. But there is a possible suspicion that the movie may have also been…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1934
- Runtime: 1 h 23 min
- Genres: Comedy
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LieutenantKizhe1934Restored)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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