The Decembrists (Russian: Декабристы, romanized: Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Ivanovsky |
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| Cinematography | Ivan Frolov |
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| Country | Soviet Union |
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Plot edit
The film recreates the history of the movement of the Decembrists: an outbreak of peasant revolts, organization of nobility circles and the actual uprising; against the background of these events unfolds the romantic love story of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and French milliner Pauline Gueble.
Cast edit
- Vladimir Maksimov as Emperor Alexander I
- Yevgeni Boronikhin as Emperor Nicholas I
- Varvara Annenkova as Polina Gebl-Annenkova
- Boris Tamarin as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov
- Tamara Godlevskaya - Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
- Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
- Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
- Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
- Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
- Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva
References edit
- ^ Christie & Taylor p.428
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 225.
Bibliography edit
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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