The Decembrists () is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.Christie & Taylor p.428
Plot The film recreates the history of the movement of the Decembrists: an outbreak of peasant revolts, organization of nobility circles and the actual uprising; against the background of these events unfolds the romantic love story of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and French milliner Pauline Gueble.
Cast Vladimir Maksimov as Emperor Alexander I Yevgeni Boronikhin as Emperor Nicholas I Varvara Annenkova as Polina Gebl-Annenkova Boris Tamarin as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov Tamara Godlevskaya as Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva
References
Bibliography Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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