The Great Citizen

The Great Citizen; (Великий гражданин)
Directed by	Fridrikh Ermler
Written by	Mikhail Bleiman; Manuel Bolshintsov; Fridrikh Ermler
Starring	Nikolay Bogolyubov
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Edited by	Ye. Makhankova
Production; company	Lenfilm
Release date	13 February 1938; 27 November 1939;
Running time	252 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, translit. Velikiy grazhdanin is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It was the first Soviet made for TV movie.

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 Bogolyubov - Shakhov - the great citizen
Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
Zoya Fyodorova - Nadya
Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
Boris Chirkov - 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

External links

The Great Citizen on IMDb

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