Taras Bulba (1924 film)

Taras Bulba
Directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky
Joseph N. Ermolieff
Produced by Joseph N. Ermolieff
Written by Nikolai Gogol (short story)
Vladimir Strizhevsky
Starring J.N. Douvan-Tarzow
Oscar Marion
Clementine Plessner
Helena Makowska
Music by Felix Bartsch
Cinematography Fritz Biller
Rudolf Schlesinger
Production
company
Ermolieff-Film
Orbis-Film
Release date
 1924
Country Germany
Language Silent
German intertitles

Taras Bulba is a 1924 German silent adventure film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky and Joseph N. Ermolieff and starring J.N. Douvan-Tarzow, Oscar Marion and Clementine Plessner. It is based on the short story Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, and made at the Emelka Studios in Munich. It was one of several Russian-themed films that exiled producer Ermolieff made in Munich during the 1920s.[1]

The film's art direction was by Kurt Dürnhöfer and Willy Reiber.

Cast

  • J.N. Douvan-Tarzow as Taras Bulba
  • Oscar Marion as Andry, Son of Taras
  • Clementine Plessner as Bulba's Wife
  • Helena Makowska as Panotschka
  • N.N. Novitzky as Woiwode
  • Alexander Polonsky as Jankel, Innkeeper
  • Josef Rounitch as Ostap, Son of Taras
  • Lia Tschung Tsching as Servant
  • August Junker
  • Rudolf Raab

References

  1. ↑ Rollberg p.219

Bibliography

  • Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.


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