Nikolay SHENGELAIA
Николай ШЕНГЕЛАЯ
Nikolaï CHENGUELAIA
USSR, 1932, 109mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Dvadtsat shest komissarov
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Двадцать шесть комиссаров

 

 Les Vingt six commissaires

 Dvadtsat shest komissarov

 
Directed by : Nikolay SHENGELAIA (Николай ШЕНГЕЛАЯ)
Writing credits : Nikolay AMIRAGOV (Николай АМИРАГОВ), Aleksandr RZHESHEVSKY (Александр РЖЕШЕВСКИЙ), Nikolay SHENGELAIA (Николай ШЕНГЕЛАЯ)
 
Cast
M. ABESADZE (М. АБЕСАДЗЕ)
Kote ANDRONIKASHVILY (Коте АНДРОНИКАШВИЛИ)
Veriko ANZHAPARIDZE (Верико АНЖАПАРИДЗЕ) ...Femme d'un travailleur
Khairi EMIR-ZADE (Хайри ЭМИР-ЗАДЕ)
Vladimir GARDIN (Владимир ГАРДИН)
K. GASANOV (К. ГАСАНОВ) ...Stepan Shaumian, dirigeant arménien
Ivan KLIUKVIN (Иван КЛЮКВИН) ...Petia, soldat de l'armée rouge
Vasili KOVRIGIN (Василий КОВРИГИН) ...Vaska, le marin
N. KULIKOV (Н. КУЛИКОВ)
Mustapha MARDANOV (Мустафа МАРДАНОВ)
Ala-Verdi MELIKOV (Ала-Верды МЕЛИКОВ)
Alisattar MELIKOV (Алисаттар МЕЛИКОВ)
Alekper MELIKOV (Алекпер МЕЛИКОВ)
Piotr MORSKOY (Пётр МОРСКОЙ) ...Communiste du front
P. RIAZANOV (П. РЯЗАНОВ) ...Général Denvill
Igor SAVCHENKO (Игорь САВЧЕНКО) ...Dirigeant du parti social révolutionnaire
Baba ZADE (Баба ЗАДЕ) ...Azizbekov
Mikhail ZHAROV (Михаил ЖАРОВ) ...Membre du parti menchevik
 
Cinematography : Evgeniy SCHNEIDER (Евгений ШНЕЙДЕР)
Production design : Viktor ADEN (Виктор АДЕН)
 
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films
Plot synopsis
In the spring of 1918, the Baku proletariat is going through difficult times. The city is cut off from the rest of the Soviet Union. Hunger is setting in. The Menshevik traitors propose to accept English aid. The Baku communists denounce their criminal designs. But the counter-revolutionary forces prevail and the twenty-six Baku commissars are arrested, deported and shot.
After the victories won by the Soviet power throughout the country, the Baku revolutionaries overthrew the power. Baku becomes Soviet.
 
Commentaries
Cinq bijoux du cinéma muet géorgien, Jean RADVANYI, cinematheque.fr, 2025
La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- Fondation Jérôme Seydoux. Octobre 1917, une révolution en images, Paris (France), 2017
- Douarnenez Film Festival, Douarnenez (France), 2009
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