Sickle and Hammer (film)

Sickle and Hammer (Russian: Серп и молот, romanized: Serp i molot) is a 1921 Russian silent drama film directed by Vladimir Gardin.[1] It is an agit-film that is longer than the usual at six reels because the norm is two reels only or twenty minutes.[2] The story is about a peasant worker who went to the city to become a factory worker, then he eventually fights in the World War and after this, he returns to his own village as a Red Army commander. [3]

Sickle and Hammer
Directed byVladimir Gardin
Written byAndrei Gorchilin
Feofan Shipulinsky
CinematographyEduard Tisse
Production
company
VFKO
Release date
  • 1921 (1921)
CountryRussia
LanguageSilent
Russian intertitles

Cast
  • Aleksandr Gromov as Ivan Gorbov
  • Anatoli Gorchilin as Pyotr
  • N. Zubova as Agasha
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin as Andrey
  • Sergey Komarov
  • Ye. Bedunkevich
  • N. Belyakov
  • Anna Chekulaeva
  • A. Golovanov
  • Y. Kaverina
  • M. Kudelko
  • Feofan Shipulinsky
  • N. Vishnyak

References
  1. Sargeant p.1
  2. Youngblood, Denise J. (1991). Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77645-6.
  3. "SERP I MOLOT (1921)". BFI. Retrieved 2019-12-16.

Bibliography
  • Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris, 2001.


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