The read
It runs a compact 1h 4m.
Synopsis
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Ratings
TMDB4/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Boris KarpovDirector
- Pavel RusanovDirector
- Pavel RusanovScreenplay
- L. RondeliScreenplay
Cast
- Viktor KhokhryakovNarrator
- Leo TolstoyArchive footage
- Yevgeni Petrov-KrayevskyFilm footage
- Aleksandra GoncharovaFilm footage
- Michael ChekhovFilm footage
- Nikolai VasilyevFilm footage
- Pavel KnorrFilm footage
- Andrey GromovFilm footage
- Ivan MosjoukineFilm footage
- Antoni FertnerFilm footage
- Olga DrevnitskayaArchive footage
- Ivan PoddubniyArchive footage
Themes
cinema historyearly cinemasoviet film industry