Under what title did the film Lieutenant Kijé based on the novella by Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov release under in the US?
Lieutenant Kijé (film) Lieutenant Kijé (Russian: Поручик Киже , "Poruchik Kizhe " ) is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and promoted by Boris Gusman, based on the novella "Lieutenant Kijé" by Yury Tynyanov. The film was released in the United States as The Czar Wants to Sleep. Sergei Prokofiev composed the score.
Lieutenant Kijé Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe (Russian: Пору́чик Киже́ , translit. Poruchik Kizhe), originally Kizh (Киж), is the fictional protagonist of an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia; the story was used as the basis of a novella by Yury Tynyanov published in 1928 and filmed in 1934 with music by Sergei Prokofiev. The plot is a satire on bureaucracy.