The Great Citizen
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The Great Citizen was the first Soviet
made for TV
movie. Made on March 25, 1938, it was directed by Fridrikh Ermler
.
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.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
made for TV
Television
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movie. Made on March 25, 1938, it was directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Markovich Ermler , was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter...
.
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.
Cast
- Nikolay BogolyubovNikolay Bogolyubov (actor)Nikolay Ivanovich Bogolyubov was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the RSFSR . In 1933 he played in Boris Barnet's Okraina; in 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.-Selected filmography:* Tommy...
- Shakhov - the great citizen - Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
- Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
- Zoya FyodorovaZoya FyodorovaZoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. As a result of the affair, she was imprisoned in Siberia by Joseph Stalin for eight years...
- Nadya - Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
- Boris ChirkovBoris ChirkovBoris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize; in 1975, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour.-Selected filmography:* Alone * Chapaev...
- 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