Brigade Commander Ivanov

Brigade Commander Ivanov
Directed by Aleksandr Razumny
Cinematography Aleksandr Razumny
Production
company
Proletkino
Release date
 24 October 1923
Country Soviet Union
Language Silent
Russian intertitles

Brigade Commander Ivanov (Russian: Комбриг Иванов, translit. Kombrig Ivanov) is a 1923 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Aleksandr Razumny.[1] It was released in the United States as Beauty and the Bolshevik.[2]

Plot

People cheerfully greet the brigade red troopers who have arrived in the village to rest. As Brigade Commander Ivanov comes to stay in the house of the priest he falls in love with his daughter. Their marriage plans are hindered by religious prejudices as the priest's daughter insists on the wedding to be in the church ...

Cast

  • Pyotr Leontyev as Brigade Commander Ivanov
  • N. Belyayev as priest
  • Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina priest's wife
  • Olga Tretyakova as Olympiada, priest's daughter
  • G. Volkonskaya as baker of communion bread
  • Maria Arnazi-Borshak as komsomol member
  • Vsevolod Massino as komsomol member
  • Leonid Konstantinovskiy as komsomol member

References

  1. ↑ Christie & Taylor p.428
  2. ↑ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 167.

Bibliography

  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.


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