Synopsis
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Movie Information
- Director
- Boris Karpov
- Writers
- L. Rondeli, Pavel Rusanov
- Release Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 64 minutes
- Genre
- Documentary, History
- Language
- RU
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- 4.0 / 10 (1 votes)
Top Cast
Viktor Khokhryakov
Narrator
Leo Tolstoy
Archive footage
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Film footage
Aleksandra Goncharova
Film footage
Michael Chekhov
Film footage
Nikolai Vasilyev
Film footage
Pavel Knorr
Film footage
Andrey Gromov
Film footage
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