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The House of the Dead (1932 film)

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'The House of the Dead' is an 1932 Russian film directed by Vasili Fyodorov from a script by Viktor Shklovsky, based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky.[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/8570/annot/ ] Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times, eventually calling it 'The House of the Dead' ('Mertvyi dom'). Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion Under Stalin

Jamie Miller 2009 Page 59 Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times eventually calling it The House of the Dead (Mertvyi dom, 1932). The script was rejected on four other occasions. However, in the early to mid thirties, the existence of the Mezhrabpomfilm studio still provided an alternative for writers and filmmakers. Despite the public denunciations of Shklovsky as a Formalist, the studio accepted his script and entrusted the film to the director Vasili Fyodorov.
N. M. Lary Dostoevsky and Soviet film: visions of demonic realism 1986 Page 24 It is clear that the idea for House of the Dead, one of the first Soviet sound films, was Shklovsky's. Unfortunately, the studio entrusted the shooting of it to a director of mean talent, Vasili Fedorov. The film was attended by controversy from the start of work on it in 1930. Shklovsky had just been driven to renounce the scientific error of Formalism, but his startling pronouncements and his early Social Revolutionary attachments were not forgotten or forgiven. According to one account he... The film stars Nikolay Khmelyov, Nikolay Podgorny, Nikolai Vitovtov and Mikhail Zharov.[http://www.zamos.ru/dossier/h/4365/ . .]

Cast



* Nikolay Khmelyov as Fyodor Dostoyevsky

* Nikolai Podgorny as K.P. Pobedonstzev

* Nikolai Vitovtov as Tsar Nikolai I

* Nikolai Radin as L.V. Doubelt

* Vladimir Belokurov as Stammering Announcer

* Vladimir Uralsky

* Vasili Kovrigin as Uspensky

* Gleb Kuznetsov as Guards soldier

* Viktor Shklovsky as Petrashevsky

* Georgiy Sochevko as Yastrzhembskiy

Release



The film was banned in Spain in 1935,Romn Gubern, Paul Hammond Luis Buuel : The Red Years, 19291939 (2012) p. 195 In August 1935 Piqueras denounced the Republican government for forbidding the showing of Patriots (Boris Barnet, 1933), about an episode in a Russian village in World War I; The House of the Dead (Vasili Fyodorov, 1932), a biography of... but acquired by the British National Film Centre and the British Film Museum for showing in the Dostoyevsky jubilee in 1972.[https://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_id/20882/episode_id/154241/video_id/154241/ . ] Soviet Film 1972 Page 56 At the request of the British National Film Centre, the Archives supplied the British Film Museum with a number of films for the Dostoyevsky jubilee, among them Ivan Pyryev's screen adaptation of the Idiot (1958), also St Petersburg Night, made by Grigori Roshal and Vera Stroyeva in 1934, and The House of the Dead (1932), directed by Vassili Fyodorov.

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