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directed by Ilya Trauberg.Christie & Taylor p.427

Cast

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as The European * Igor Chernyak * I. Arbenin *

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as An Overseer * I. Savelyev as An Overseer * San Bo Yan as The Girl * Lian Din Do as The Merchant * Chu Chai Wan as The Peasant * Chzan Kai as The Fireman * A. Vardul as The Coolie * Spasayevsky *

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* Boris Brodyansky *

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as The General

References

Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.

External links

* 1929 films Soviet silent feature films Soviet drama films Russian drama films 1920s Russian-language films 1929 drama films Soviet black-and-white films Russian silent feature films Russian black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s Soviet films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub