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The Devil's Wheel

03/15/1926

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0hr 40min

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Action

,Crime

STORY

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lyudmila Semyonova
  • Pyotr Sobolevsky
  • Emil Gal
  • Sergei Gerasimov
  • Andrei Kostrichkin

    Directors

  • Grigori Kozintsev
  • Leonid Trauberg

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Lenfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Lyudmila Semyonova

Valya

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Vanya Shorin

Emil Gal

Vaudeville Performer

Andrei Kostrichkin

Drummer

Yanina Zheymo

Antonio Tserep

Tavern Owner

N. Foregger

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