Film
Cinema in Russia
1979 · 1h 4m · Documentary · History
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Overview
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.
Cast
Viktor Khokhryakov
Narrator
Leo Tolstoy
Archive footage
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Film footage
Aleksandra Goncharova
Film footage
Michael Chekhov
Film footage
Nikolai Vasilyev
Film footage
Pavel Knorr
Film footage
Andrey Gromov
Film footage
Ivan Mosjoukine
Film footage
Antoni Fertner
Film footage
Olga Drevnitskaya
Archive footage
Ivan Poddubniy
Archive footage
Pyotr Nesterov
Archive footage
Georgiy Sedov
Archive footage
Vera Kholodnaya
Film footage
Vladimir Maksimov
Film footage
Crew
- Boris KarpovDirector
- Pavel RusanovDirector · Screenplay
- L. RondeliScreenplay
- Yu. PimenovProducer
- Andrey KolobrodovDirector of Photography
- Lev KopysovDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- August 27, 1979
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
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