Release Date

15 Mar, 1926

Runtime

00:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.

Original Title

Чёртово колесо

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Actors

Пётр Соболевский

Людмила Семёнова

Сергей Герасимов

Эмиль Галь

Antonio Tserep

Николай Городничев

V. Lande

Сергей Мартинсон

Евгений Кумейко

I. Berezin

Янина Жеймо

Tatyana Ventsel

Виктор Плотников

Арнольд Арнольд

Александр Костомолоцкий

Алексей Каплер

Андрей Костричкин

Михаил Шифман

Виктор Чайников

Николай Фореггер

Crew

Григорий Козинцев

Леонид Трауберг

Адриан Пиотровский

Андрей Москвин

Евгений Еней