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Rasputin (1928 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Rasputin, The Prince of Sinners' (German: 'Dornenweg einer Frstin'), or simply 'Rasputin', is a 1928 German-Soviet drama film co-directed by Nikolai Larin and Boris Nevolin and starring Vladimir Gajdarov, Suzanne Delmas and Ernst Rckert. The film's poster showed the tagline "rysslands onda ande", which translates as "Russia's Evil Spirit".
The film's sets were designed by Carl Ludwig Kirmse. This film is sometimes confused with another 1928 German silent film made about Rasputin called 'Rasputin, the Holy Sinner'.
This being the only known German-Russian co-production ever done about Rasputin, the filmmakers were able to shoot the film at or near the historical places where the real life incidents portrayed actually occurred. In 1928, the Russian royalty was interested in showing Rasputin as the monster he really was, rather than try to illicit sympathy for the character. He is depicted as a sexually promiscuous alcoholic with abhorrent manners, similar to the manner in which Hammer Films later portrayed him in their 1966 Christopher Lee film, 'Rasputin the Mad Monk'.
Cast
*Gregori Chmara as Rasputin
*Vladimir Gajdarov as Alexander Kolossov
*Suzanne Delmas as Ludmilla Vorontsov
*Ernst Rckert as Leonid Vorontsov
*Fritz Alberti as Prince Vorontsov, Reichtsrats-Mitglied
*Hedwig Wangel as Princess Vorontsov
*Mary Kid as Tatiana Oblonskaya
*Hans Albers as Sergej Ordinsky, diplomat
*Anton Pointner as Peter Avdeev
*Gnther Hadank as Radlow
*Lidiya Tridenskaya as Anissja, the cook
*Oreste Baldini as Mitensohn
*David Monko as Sokolsky - secretary
*Karl Platen as Sawely, the servant
References
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