The Great Citizen
| The Great Citizen (Великий гражданин) | |
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| Directed by | Fridrikh Ermler |
| Written by | Mikhail Bleiman Manuel Bolshintsov Fridrikh Ermler |
| Starring | Nikolay Bogolyubov |
| Edited by | Ye. Makhankova |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Running time | 252 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.[1]
A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.
Stalin made direct interventions in Mikhail Bleiman and Manuel Bolshintsov's screenplay. During the making of The Great Citizen four people associated with it were arrested. In the press Ermler and his screenwriters were obliged to condemn the "wrecker" leadership of Lenfilm, most importantly Piotrovski.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Nikolay Bogolyubov - Shakhov - the great citizen
- Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
- Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
- Zoya Fyodorova - Nadya
- Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
- Boris Chirkov - Maksim, the investigator
- Pyotr Kirillov - Briantsev - the assassin
- Yefim Altus - Katz - Shakhov's helper
- Yelena Yegorova
- Yevgeni Pankov
- Yevgeni Nemchenko - Dronov
- Georgi Semyonov - Kolesnikov
- V. Kiselyov - Gladkikh
- A. Polibin - Solovyev
- Sergei Kurilov
- N. Raiskaya-Dore - Shakhov's mother
- Natalya Rashevskaya - Olga
- K. Ryabinkin - Kryuchkov
References
[edit]- ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 267–268. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ Birgit Beumers. A Companion to Russian Cinema. Wiley. ISBN 1118424700.
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