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The Decembrists (film)

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Directed by
  
Aleksandr Ivanovsky

Production company
  
Leningradkino

Cinematography
  
Ivan Frolov

Country
  
Soviet Union

Written by
  
Aleksandr Ivanovsky Pavel Shchyogolev

Release date
  
February 8, 1927 (1927-02-08)

The Decembrists (Russian: Декабристы, Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.

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Plot

The film recreates the history of the movement of the Decembrists: an outbreak of peasant revolts, organization of nobility circles and the actual uprising; against the background of these events unfolds the romantic love story of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and French milliner Pauline Gueble.

Cast

  • Vladimir Maksimov as Emperor Alexander I
  • Yevgeni Boronikhin as Emperor Nicholas I
  • Varvara Annenkova as Polina Gebl-Annenkova
  • Boris Tamarin as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov
  • Tamara Godlevskaya - Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
  • Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
  • Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
  • Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
  • Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
  • Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva

    • References

    The Decembrists (film) Wikipedia
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