Konstantin EGGERT
Константин ЭГГЕРТ
Konstantin EGGERT
USSR, 1936, 73mn 
Black and white, fiction
Gobsek
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Гобсек

 

 Gobsek

 Gobsek

 
Directed by : Konstantin EGGERT (Константин ЭГГЕРТ)
Writing credits : Konstantin EGGERT (Константин ЭГГЕРТ), Oleg LEONIDOV (Олег ЛЕОНИДОВ)
Based on the eponymous short story by Honoré de Balzac
 
Cast
Osip ABDULOV (Осип АБДУЛОВ) ...Jeanne
Tatyana KONDRAKOVA (Татьяна КОНДРАКОВА) ...Jeanne
Leonid LEONIDOV (Леонид ЛЕОНИДОВ) ...Gobsek
Galina SERGEYEVA (Галина СЕРГЕЕВА) ...Fanny Lalvaut, lingère
Aleksandr SHATOV (Александр ШАТОВ) ...Derville, avocat
 
Cinematography : Luis FORESTIER (Луи ФОРЕСТЬЕ)
Music : Vissarion SHEBALIN (Виссарион ШЕБАЛИН)
Sound : Nikolay PISAREV (Николай ПИСАРЕВ)
Companies : Mejrabpomfilm
Release Date in Russia : 09/05/1937
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Beginning of the 19th century. The gloomy house of the usurer Gobsek in the surroundings of Paris, the mute witness of human tragedies and shattered destinies. The power of money equalizes people from different social strata and situations by forcing them to humble themselves to ask for a loan from the loan shark. But the mountains of goods, gold and silver do not bring happiness to Gobsek. His greed makes him lose his mind and causes his death...
 

commentaries
Le Centre russe à Paris lance son mois de la littérature française dans le cinéma soviétique, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2018

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