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In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
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Audiences 60GoodWatch 56
IMDb6.0
Running time
2 h 5 min
Longer than most sci-fi movies, +26 min on the typical 99
typical 99125Half of all sci-fi movies run 90–112 min.
Released
1925
March 16, 1925
101 years ago
Genres
Science FictionDramaThrillerLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
and 9 more21 people
- Porfiri PodobedPodobed, engineer-inventor
- Vsevolod PudovkinPater Revo, catholic priest
- Sergei KomarovTomas Lann
- Vladimir FogelFog, fascist
- Alexandra KhokhlovaSharpshooter / Sister Edith
- SKSergey KhokhlovFreddie, Edith's son
- ISInna StravinskayaStoker's daughter
- ASA. StrabinskayaShura, Podobed's assistant
- AGAndrei GorchilinRapp, electric technician
- ACAnna ChekulaevaRapp's wife
- Pyotr GaladzhevRuller, factory owner / Circus director
- Leonid ObolenskyHard, leader of fascists
- VPViktor PilschikovRuller's nephew
- Alexandr GromovFactory worker
Andrey FaytAgent
Fyodor IvanovGendarme
Vera MarinichWorker woman- VKVladimir KochetovMan of Revo
Eduard GunnDoorman- AAAlexei Alexeev(uncredited)
- VLValentina LopatinaWorker woman (uncredited)
Directing · 5
- Lev Kuleshov Director
- Vsevolod Pudovkin Assistant Director, Writer, Production Design
- Leonid Obolensky Assistant Director
- Alexandra Khokhlova Assistant Director
- S. Komarov Assistant Director
Camera · 1
- Aleksandr Levitsky Director of Photography
Art · 1
- Vasiliy Rakhals Production Design
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