Directed by Vladimir Gardin Production
company VUFKU Country Soviet Union Director Vladimir Gardin | Cinematography Yevgeni Slavinsky Release date 1923 Initial release 1923 Production company Dovzhenko Film Studios | |
Written by Vladimir Gardin
Anatoli Lunacharsky (play)
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Locksmith and Chancellor (Russian: Слесарь и Канцлер, Slesar i kantsler) is a 1923 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin based on the play of Anatoli Lunacharsky.
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The film's art direction was by Vladimir Yegorov.
Synopsis
The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group of conspirators who were dissatisfied with this state of affairs, led by the Social Democrat Frank Frey arrange a coup to overthrew the emperor of Norland. But the working class does not like the new order either. Workers expose Frank Frey's policy of continuing the war and a revolution breaks out in the country. The leader of the socialist revolution becomes a mechanic of the name Franz Stark.