The Decembrists (film)

1927 film

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

1. Christie & Taylor p.428
2. 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