The Decembrists (film)

The Decembrists
The Decembrists
Directed by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Written by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky; ;
Cinematography	Ivan Frolov
Production; company
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
as Emperor Nicholas I
as Polina Gebl-Annenkova
as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov
- Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
as Count Obolensky
Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
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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