Aleksandr ARKATOV
Александр АРКАТОВ
Aleksandr ARKATOV
Russia, 1918, short film 
Black and white, silent, fiction
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Directed by : Aleksandr ARKATOV (Александр АРКАТОВ)
 
Cast
Vladimir KARIN (Владимир КАРИН) ...switchman
 
Cinematography : Eduard TISSE (Эдуард ТИССЭ)
Production : Moscow Film Committee (Московский кинокомитет)
 
Sites : Kino-teatr, IMDb

Plot synopsis
A journalistic drama. Based on the short story of the same name by V. Garshin.
About the heroism of a switchman who prevented a train wreck.
The film has not survived.
 

Commentaries
 
This film is considered to be the first children's film (detskiy film) in post-1917 Russia, which would not give rise to the Soviet Union until 1922.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026