Volga in Flames
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Directed by | Viktor Tourjansky |
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Based on | The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin |
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Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
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Distributed by | Astra Paris Films |
Release date | 9 February 1934 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
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Language | French |
Volga in Flames (French: Volga en flammes) is a 1934 historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Albert Prejean, Valéry Inkijinoff and Danielle Darrieux.[1] It was made as a co-production between France and Czechoslovakia and is an adaptation of the 1836 novel The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, set during the Cossack Rebellion against Catherine the Great.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew and Stepán Kopecký. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague.
Cast[]
- Albert Préjean as Orloff
- Valéry Inkijinoff as Silatschoff
- Danielle Darrieux as Macha
- Raymond Rouleau as Schalin
- Henri Marchand as Ivan
- as His wife
- as Le colonel
- Nathalie Kovanko as Olga
- as Waiter
- as Guardsman
- Vladimír Borský
- Jean Worms
References[]
- ^ Driskell p.209
Bibliography[]
- Jonathan Driskell. The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France. I.B.Tauris, 2015.
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Categories:
- French-language films
- 1934 films
- French films
- Czechoslovak films
- Czech films
- 1930s historical adventure films
- French historical adventure films
- Czech historical adventure films
- Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
- Films set in the 18th century
- Films set in the Russian Empire
- Films shot at Barrandov Studios
- Films based on works by Aleksandr Pushkin
- 1930s French film stubs