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

Leo Tolstoy

Archive footage

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

Aleksandra Goncharova

Michael Chekhov

Andrey Gromov

Ivan Mosjoukine

Antoni Fertner

Olga Drevnitskaya

Archive footage

Pyotr Nesterov

Archive footage

Georgiy Sedov

Archive footage

Vera Kholodnaya

Vladimir Maksimov

Vera Karalli

Vitold Polonsky

Olga Gzovskaya

Ivane Perestiani

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