Red Devils (film)
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Directed by | Ivan Perestiani Pavel Blyakhin |
Written by | Ivan Perestiani Pavel Blyakhin |
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Cinematography | Aleksander Digmelov |
Music by | I. Gokieli |
Production companies | Cinema section of People's Commissariat of Georgia Odessa Film Studio |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Red Devils (Russian: Красные дьяволята, romanized: Krasnye dyavolyata) is a 1923 Soviet adventure film directed by Ivan Perestiani based on the eponymous story by Pavel Blyakhin.[1] It has become one of the most famous and oft-quoted works of the Soviet adventure film.[2]
Plot[]
The film is about the adventures of three young agents, fighters of the 1st Cavalry Army, set against the background of the Russian Civil War and the struggle with the Makhnovist forces. At the beginning Nestor Makhno and his troops attack the village, committing various crimes, including murdering peasants, robbing huts, stealing livestock, killing communists. In the attack, a man's father is captured, tortured and killed under Makhno's orders. Afterwards, the three of them organize a detachment against Makhno.
Cast[]
- Pavel Yesikovsky - Misha
- Sofia Josephey - Dunyasha, Misha's sister
- Kador Ben-Salim - Tom Jackson
- Vladimir Kucherenko (credited as Vladimir Sutyrin) - Makhno
- Konstantin Davidovsky - Budyonny
- G. Lane - Petrov, worker, father of Misha and Dunyashi
- Nikolay Nirov - Garbuzenko
- Svetlana Lux - Oksana
- Jan Burinsky - captain
- Zakariy Berishvili - bandit
- Georgiy Makarov - bandit
- Patwakan Barkhudaryan - bandit
Sequels[]
- The Savur-Mohyla (1926)
- The Crime of Shirvanskaya (1926)
- The Punishment of Shirvanskaya (1926)
- Ilan-dili (1926)
See also[]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 168.
- ^ Geldern, James Von; Stites, Richard (1995). Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953. ISBN 0253328934.
- 1923 films
- Russian-language films
- Soviet films
- Soviet silent feature films
- Films directed by Ivan Perestiani
- Odessa Film Studio films
- Soviet black-and-white films
- Soviet adventure films
- 1923 adventure films
- Cultural depictions of Nestor Makhno
- 1920s Soviet film stubs