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

 

 The Devil's Wheel

 La Roue du diable

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
Pyotr 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 : Yevgeni ENEJ (Евгений ЕНЕЙ)
Companies : Leningradkino
Release Date in Russia : 16/03/1926
 
Site : IMDb

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

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé : Cycle "Attractions. Cinéma forain, magie et cirque", Paris (France), 2020
- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. 1917-1945 : first and second part, Paris (France), 2017
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2011
- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2009
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2006
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

Images
 

Photo : Musée du cinéma de Moscou