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The White Eagle
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Wikipedia article
'The White Eagle' is a 1928 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Vasili Kachalov, Anna Sten and Vsevolod Meyerhold.Christie & Taylor p.434 Set in Tsarist times, it is based on the play 'The Governor' by Leonid Andreyev.
Plot
The film takes place in 1905. Governor-liberal attempts to prevent a strike in the city but the workers refuse to obey. The governor gives an order to shoot the strikers and suppresses the uprising with force while children die in the crossfire. As a reward, he is represented with the order of "White Eagle", but the governor is haunted by pangs of conscience.
Cast
* Vasili Kachalov as Governor
* Anna Sten as Governor's wife
* Vsevolod Meyerhold as Dignitary
* Ivan Chuvelyov
* Andrey Petrovsky as Chief of Police
* Pyotr Repnin as Bishop
* Ye. Volkonskaya
* Mikhail Zharov
* Yuri Vasilchikov
* Aleksandr Gromov as Revolutionary
References
Bibliography
* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. 'The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939'. Routledge, 2012.
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