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The Decembrists (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Decembrists' is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.Christie & Taylor p.428
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
* 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
* Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
* Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
* Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
* Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
* Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva
References
Bibliography
* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. 'The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939'. Routledge, 2012.
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