''The Crime of Shirvanskaya'' ( ka, Shirvanskaias danashauli, russian: Преступление княжны Ширванской, Prestuplenie kniazhny Shirvanskoy) is a 1926 Soviet
silent adventure film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...
directed by
Ivane Perestiani
Ivan Nikolaevich Perestiani (also Ivane, ka, ივანე პერესტიანი; russian: Иван Николаевич Перестиани; — 14 May 1959) was a Georgian/Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor, and Peop ...
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[Rollberg p.526]
Cast
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Maria Shirai as Princess Shirvanskaya
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Pavel Yesikovsky as Misha
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Sofia Jozeffi as Duniasha
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Kador Ben-Salim
Kador Ben-Salim () was a Senegalese-Soviet acrobat, Red Army soldierm and most likely the only actor of African descent in Soviet film throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. A veteran of the Russian Civil War, he appeared in at least eight films, i ...
as Tom Jackson
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Aleksandr Shirai as Douglas McLin
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Marius Jakobini
Marius may refer to:
People
*Gaius Marius (157 BC-86 BC), Roman statesman, seven times consul.
Arts and entertainment
* ''Marius'' (play), a 1929 play by Marcel Pagnol
* "Marius" (short story), a 1957 story by Poul Anderson
* ''Marius'' (193 ...
as Ialmar Rumanesku
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Svetlana Luiks as Oqsana
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N. Lasmozi as Zina Khanum
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R. Japaridze as Levkoeva
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Tamar Bakradze as Wife of officier Mironov
References
Bibliography
* Rollberg, Peter. ''Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
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1926 films
1926 adventure films
Soviet adventure films
Soviet silent feature films
Georgian-language films
Films directed by Ivan Perestiani
Soviet black-and-white films
Silent adventure films
Soviet-era films from Georgia (country)
1920s Soviet films
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