Plot synopsis

Loosely based on Pavel Shchegolev’s novel “The Mysterious Prisoner”
Story of tragic fate of Mikhail Beideman, a Peter and Paul Fortress prisoner, who spent over 20 years in a stone cell of Alexeyevsky ravelin.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
Source : www.lenfilm.ru

Commentaries and bibliography

Кино в Петербурге. Петербург в кино, Anna KOVALOVA, seance.ru, 2011

Monumental Sculptures in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s, Yevgeni MARGOLIT, Kinokultura, 2009

Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992