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The Devil's Wheel (1926)

ALL 03/15/1926 (ru) Action, Crime 40 Min
  • Release
    03/15/1926
  • Production
    Lenfilm
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    Чёртово колесо
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Pyotr Sobolevsky

    Vanya Shorin, Red fleet sailor

  2. Lyudmila Semyonova

    Valya

  3. Sergei Gerasimov

    The Question Man

  4. Emil Gal

    Koko, vaudeville performer

  5. Antonio Tserep

    Tavern Owner

  6. Nikolay Gorodnichev

    House manager

  7. V. Lande

    Cafe dancer

  8. Sergei Martinson

    Orchestra conductor

  9. Yevgeniy Kumeyko

    Hooligan

  10. I. Berezin

    Hooligan

  11. Yanina Zheymo

    Hooligan girl

  12. Tatyana Ventsel

  13. Viktor Plotnikov

    Salvation army member

  14. Arnold Arnold

    Editor

  15. Aleksandr Kostomolotsky

  16. Aleksei Kapler

  17. Andrei Kostrichkin

    Drummer

  18. Mikhail Shifman

    (uncredited)

  19. Viktor Chaynikov

    Sailor (uncredited)

  20. N. Foregger

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 20 , Crews : 5

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The Devil's Wheel (1926) 40 Min

ALL 03/15/1926 (ru)
Action, Crime
  • Release 03/15/1926
  • Production
    Lenfilm
  • Original title Чёртово колесо
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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