Stjenka Rasin is a 1936 German historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Wera Engels, Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Heinrich George.Waldman p.245 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.202 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. It is also known by the alternative title Wolga, Wolga.
Synopsis The plot revolves around the Cossack Stenka Razin who leads a peasant uprising against the Tsarist authorities in seventeenth century Russia.
Cast Wera Engels as Prinzessin Dolgoruki Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Stjenka Rasin Heinrich George as Fürst Dolgoruki Anton Pointner as Fürst Prosorowsky Rudolf Platte as Filka Olaf Bach as Wasska Philipp Manning as Zar Alexey Michailowitsch Wolfgang Keppler as Jegorka Hubert von Meyerinck as Borodin Hans Joachim Schaufuß as Nikolka
References
Bibliography Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996. Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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