The Decembrists (film)

The Decembrists
The Decembrists
Directed by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Written by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky; Pavel Shchyogolev;
Cinematography	Ivan Frolov
Production; company	Leningradkino
Release date	8 February 1927;
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent; Russian intertitles;

The Decembrists (Russian: Декабристы, romanized: Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.^[1]^[2]

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

^ Christie & Taylor p.428
^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 225.

Bibliography

Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

The Decembrists at IMDb

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[1] Christie & Taylor p.428

[2] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 225.

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