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Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
Leonid TRAUBERG
Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ
Leonid TRAUBERG
USSR, 1927, 76mn
Black and white, silent, fiction
Union of the Great Cause
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Союз великого дела
SVD / l’Union pour la grande cause
Soyouz velikogo dela
Directed by :
Grigori KOZINTSEV
(Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ),
Leonid TRAUBERG
(Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ)
Writing credits :
Julian OKSMAN
(Юлиан ОКСМАН),
Yuri TYNYANOV
(Юрий ТЫНЯНОВ)
Cast
Pyotr SOBOLEVSKY
(Пётр СОБОЛЕВСКИЙ) ...Sukhanov
Sergey GERASIMOV
(Сергей ГЕРАСИМОВ) ...Medoks
Oleg ZHAKOV
(Олег ЖАКОВ) ...hussar
Ianina ZHEIMO
(Янина ЖЕЙМО) ...circus rider
Andrei KOSTRICHKIN
(Андрей КОСТРИЧКИН) ...Medoks's servant
Sofia MAGARILL
(Софья МАГАРИЛЛ) ...Vishnevsky's wife
Konstantin KHOKHLOV
(Константин ХОХЛОВ) ...general Vishnevsky
Aleksandr MELNIKOV
(Александр МЕЛЬНИКОВ)
Nikolay MITCHURIN
(Николай МИЧУРИН)
Lyudmila SEMENOVA
(Людмила СЕМЕНОВА)
Cinematography :
Andrei MOSKVIN
(Андрей МОСКВИН)
Production design :
Yevgeni ENEJ
(Евгений ЕНЕЙ)
Production :
Lenfilm
Release date in Russia :
23/08/1927
Plot synopsis
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia.
Commentaries and bibliography
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf
,
Myriam TSIKOUNAS
, Cerf, 1992
Selected in the following festivals :
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Pordenone Silent Film Festival
, Pordenone (Italy), 2011