''Light over Russia'' (russian: Свет над Россией, Svet nad Rossyey) is a 1947
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
history propaganda film directed by
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of ...
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Plot
The film illustrates the memories of a sailor who survived the
Revolution
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and the
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sou ...
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
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Mikheil Gelovani
Mikheil Gelovani ( ka, მიხეილ გელოვანი, Russified as Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Гелова́ни, ''Mikhail Georgievich Gelovani''; – 21 December 1956) was a Soviet and Georgian actor, known for his n ...
as
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (russian: Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; 24 January 1872 – 31 March 1959) was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geo ...
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Nikolay Okhlopkov
Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (russian: Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков; 15 May 1900, in Irkutsk – 8 January 1967, in Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold. Pat ...
as Masha Zabelina (credited as K. Ivanova)
* Nikolai Kryuchkov as Aleksandr Rybakov, sailor
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Benjamin Zuskin
Benjamin Zuskin (russian: Вениамин Львович Зу́скин (Veniamin Lvovich Zuskin); April 28, 1899 – August 12, 1952) was a Soviet and Russian actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre (GOSET). Zuskin had the t ...
as watchmaker
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Sergei Tsenin
Sergei Sergeyevich Tsenin (russian: link=no, Сергей Сергеевич Ценин) was a Soviet and Russian actor and director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935).
Selected filmography
* 1930 — '' St. Jorgen's Day''
*1936 — '' Party ...
Boris Livanov
Boris Nikolayevich Livanov (russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Лива́нов; – 22 September 1972) was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948).
as speculator
* Yelena Yelina as Lidiya Mikhailovna, Zabelin's wife
* Maria Yarotskaya as Dasha, servant of Zabelins
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Lidiya Sukharevskaya
Lidiya Petrovna Sukharevskaya (russian: Ли́дия Петро́вна Сухаре́вская; 30 August 1909 – 11 October 1991) was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. ...
as Yelena Vyacheslavovna, frightened lady
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Notable people called Yelena
* Yelena Afanasyeva (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres
*Yelena Vladimiro ...
as lady with knitting
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Rostislav Plyatt
Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.
Biograph ...