The Decembrists (film)
1926 film by Aleksandr Ivanovsky
The Decembrists (Russian: Декабристы, romanized: Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.
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 as 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
Bibliography
Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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