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Wings of a Serf

11/16/1926

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1hr 13min

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Drama

,History

STORY

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ivan Klyukvin
  • Leonid Leonidov
  • Safiyat Askarova
  • Vladimir Korsh
  • Nikolai Prozorovsky

    Directors

  • Yuri Tarich
  • Esfir Shub

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Sovkino

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Ivan Klyukvin

Nikishka

Leonid Leonidov

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Safiyat Askarova

Maria Temriukovna

Nikolai Prozorovsky

Feodor Basmanov

Sofya Garrel

Fima

Aleksandr Zhukov

Vaska Gryaznov

Lev Ivanov

Guard (uncredited)

Konstantin Efimov

Metropolitan

Ivan Kachalov

Malyuta Skuratov

Vasiliy Makarov

Lupatov

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