Cinema in Russia (1979)

  • NR
  • 08/27/1979 (SU)
  • Documentary, History
  • 1h 4m

Overview

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.

Boris Karpov

Director

Pavel Rusanov

Director, Screenplay

L. Rondeli

Screenplay

Cast

Viktor Khokhryakov's headshot

Viktor Khokhryakov

Narrator
Leo Tolstoy's headshot

Leo Tolstoy

Archive footage
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky's headshot

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

Film footage
Aleksandra Goncharova's headshot

Aleksandra Goncharova

Film footage
Michael Chekhov's headshot

Michael Chekhov

Film footage
Nikolai Vasilyev's headshot

Nikolai Vasilyev

Film footage
Pavel Knorr's headshot

Pavel Knorr

Film footage
Andrey Gromov's headshot

Andrey Gromov

Film footage

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