''The Decembrists'' (russian: Декабристы, Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet
silent historical drama film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swas ...
directed by
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Aleksandr Viktorovich Ivanovsky (; November 29, 1881 – January 12, 1968) was a screenwriter and film director in Soviet Union. He was awarded the USSR State Prize, Stalin Prize in 1941, for his work on the 1940 film ''Musical Story''. His 1944 o ...
.
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
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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 - Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
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Gennadiy Michurin
Gennadiy Mikhailovich Michurin (russian: Геннадий Михайлович Мичу́рин; 1897–1970) was a Soviet stage and film actor.Kaganovsky / Salazkina p.123
Biography
Michurin was born 1897. In 1917-1918 he studied at the Petrogr ...
as
Count Sergei Trubetskoy
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Sergei Shishko as Decembrist
Kondraty Ryleyev
*
Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
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Ivan Khudoleyev
Ivan Nikolaevich Khudoleyev (Russian: ''Иван Николаевич Худолеев''; 24 September 1875 – 19 May 1932) was a Soviet silent film actor.
Selected filmography
*'' Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent'' (1918)
*'' The Last Tango' ...
as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
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Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva
References
Bibliography
* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.
External links
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1920s historical drama films
Soviet historical drama films
Soviet silent films
1920s Russian-language films
Films directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Soviet black-and-white films
1927 drama films
1927 films
Cultural depictions of Nicholas I of Russia
Films set in the 19th century
Silent drama films
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