Cinema in Russia

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.

Release Date: 1979-08-27

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Casts

Viktor Khokhryakov

Narrator

Leo Tolstoy

Archive footage

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

Film footage

Aleksandra Goncharova

Film footage

Michael Chekhov

Film footage

Andrey Gromov

Film footage

Ivan Mosjoukine

Film footage

Antoni Fertner

Film footage

Olga Drevnitskaya

Archive footage

Pyotr Nesterov

Archive footage

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