Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
Leonid TRAUBERG
Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ
Leonid TRAUBERG
USSR, 1926, 76mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
The Devil's Wheel
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Чертово колесо

 

 La Roue du diable

 chyortovo koleso

Russian subtitle : Моряк с Авроры (Marin de l'Aurore)
 
Directed by : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ), Leonid TRAUBERG (Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ)
Writing credits : Adrian PIOTROVSKY (Адриан ПИОТРОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Sergey GERASIMOV (Сергей ГЕРАСИМОВ) ...Le prestidigitateur
Andrey KOSTRICHKIN (Андрей КОСТРИЧКИН) ...Un sous-prolétaire
Sergey MARTINSON (Сергей МАРТИНСОН) ...Le chef d’orchestre
Lyudmila SEMENOVA (Людмила СЕМЕНОВА) ...Valia
Piotr SOBOLEVSKY (Пётр СОБОЛЕВСКИЙ) ...Vania Tchorine
Zinaida ZANONY (Зинаида ЗАНОНИ) ...Koko
Ianina ZHEIMO (Янина ЖЕЙМО) ...La fille des sous-prolétaires
 
Cinematography : Andrey MOSKVIN (Андрей МОСКВИН)
Production design : Evgeniy ENEJ (Евгений ЕНЕЙ)
Production : Leningradkino
Release date in Russia : 16/03/1926
 
Sites : IMDb, Kino-teart
Plot synopsis
The film tells about the life of a Red Navy man who accidentally became a member of a gang of thieves but managed to revive to honest living.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 
Commentaries
Город в кино. История вопроса, Liubov ARKUS, Олег КОВАЛОВ, seance.ru, 2012
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé : Cycle "Attractions. Cinéma forain, magie et cirque", Paris (France), 2020
- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. First part: 1917-1945, Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2017
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2011
- International Festival of Archive Films, Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2006
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (kinoglaz.fr), 2005
Photos and videos
 

Photo : Musée du cinéma de Moscou