''The Great Citizen'' (russian: Великий гражданин, Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938

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 ...

biopic film directed by

Fridrikh Ermler Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (russian: Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович; born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-t ...

. A fictionalized biography of

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

(the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the

Great Purges The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...

; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s. Stalin made direct interventions in Mikhail Bleiman and Manuel Bolshintsov's screenplay. During the making of ''The Great Citizen'' four people associated with it were arrested. In the press Ermler and his screenwriters were obliged to condemn the "wrecker" leadership of Lenfilm, most importantly Piotrovski.

Cast

Nikolay Bogolyubov Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretic ...

- Shakhov - the great citizen * Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator *

Oleg Zhakov Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate – 4 May 1988 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He performed in more than sixty films between ...

- Borovsky - the accomplice *

Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. ...

- Nadya *

Boris Poslavsky Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

- Sizov * Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok * Boris Chirkov - Maksim, the investigator * Pyotr Kirillov - Briantsev - the assassin * Yefim Altus - Katz - Shakhov's helper * Yelena Yegorova * Yevgeni Pankov * Yevgeni Nemchenko - Dronov * Georgi Semyonov - Kolesnikov * V. Kiselyov - Gladkikh * A. Polibin - Solovyev * Sergei Kurilov * N. Raiskaya-Dore - Shakhov's mother * Natalya Rashevskaya - Olga * K. Ryabinkin - Kryuchkov

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* Soviet biographical films Russian biographical films Soviet television films 1938 films 1930s biographical films 1939 films Films directed by Fridrikh Ermler Soviet black-and-white films Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Russian black-and-white films 1930s television films {{bio-film-stub