The General (Russian: Генерал) is a 1992 Russian biographical war film directed by Igor Nikolayev about officer Alexander Gorbatov.^[1][2]

March 1941. Sentenced to a long-term prison of the communists, Gorbatov is released from Lubyanka and shortly afterwards rules the unit on the front. He is a capable commander and is quickly promoted — soon he is a general-lieutenant and commands the army. Compared with other Soviet commanders, including Zhukov himself, he is distinguished by understanding the realities of the modern battlefield, the independence of courts and decisions and the ability to persuade his superiors to them. The war continues, and Gorbatov constantly comes to face not only the German invaders, but also the omnipotence of political officers, the ignorance of commanders ...

• Vladimir Gostyukhin — Alexander Gorbatov
• Irina Akulova — Nina Alexandrovna Gorbatova, wife
• Aleksei Zharkov — Lev Mekhlis
• Alexander Khochinsky — Boris Pasternak
• Vladimir Menshov — Georgy Zhukov
• Igor Shapovalov — Semyon Timoshenko
• Eugene Karelskikh — Konstantin Rokossovsky
• Vasily Popov — Leontiy Guriev
• Svetlana Konovalova — Tatyana Yurievna, widow of the commander Konstantin Ushakov
• Vladimir Romanovsky — Nikita Khrushchev