Cinema in Russia (1979)

4.0/10 64 min Documentary History

Overview

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

Cast

Viktor Khokhryakov

Narrator

Leo Tolstoy

Archive footage

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

Film footage

Aleksandra Goncharova

Film footage

Michael Chekhov

Film footage

Andrey Gromov

Film footage

Ivan Mosjoukine

Film footage

Antoni Fertner

Film footage

Olga Drevnitskaya

Archive footage

Pyotr Nesterov

Archive footage

Georgiy Sedov

Archive footage

Vera Kholodnaya

Film footage

Vladimir Maksimov

Film footage

Vera Karalli

Film footage

Vitold Polonsky

Film footage

Olga Gzovskaya

Film footage

Ivane Perestiani

Film footage

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