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The Devil's Wheel
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Wikipedia article
'The Devil's Wheel' is a 1926 Soviet silent crime film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg.
Plot
During a walk in the garden of the People's House, sailor Ivan Shorin meets Valya and, having missed the scheduled time is late for the ship which is departing for a cruise. The next morning he has to go to a distant foreign trek and his slight delay has turned into a desertion. The young people are sheltered by artists who turn out to be ordinary punks. Not wanting to become a thief, Ivan runs away and surrenders himself to the authorities. After the trial of his friends and just punishment, he returns to his former life.
Cast
*Pyotr Sobolevsky - Ivan Shorin, sailor from the cruiser "Aurora"
*Lyudmila Semyonova - Valka, street girl
*Sergei Gerasimov - magician "Human-Question-mark", leader of the gang of bandits
*Emil Gal - entertainer Coco, friend of the "Question-mark"
*Yanina Zhejmo - a girl from the gang
*Sergei Martinson- orchestra conductor
*Andrei Kostrichkin - one of the inhabitants of the thieves' den
*Nikolai Gorodnichev - a punk called as "superintendent"
*Antonio Tserep - the owner of the cellar
References
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