The Great Citizen

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.

The Great Citizen
(Великий гражданин)
Directed byFridrikh Ermler
Written byMikhail Bleiman
Manuel Bolshintsov
Fridrikh Ermler
StarringNikolay Bogolyubov
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Edited byYe. Makhankova
Production
company
Release date
  • 13 February 1938 (1938-02-13)
  • 27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)
Running time
252 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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


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