The Palace and the Fortress
The Palace and the Fortress (Russian: Дворец и крепость, romanized: Dvorets i krepost) is a 1924 Soviet silent biopic directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.[1] The film is about the tragic fate of revolutionary democrat Mikhail Beideman who was held prisoner at the Peter and Paul Fortress and spent over twenty years in the west Alexei-ravelin.
| The Palace and the Fortress | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Aleksandr Ivanovsky |
| Written by | Olga Forsh Pavel Shchyogolev |
| Cinematography | Ivan Frolov |
Production company | Sevzapkino |
Release date | 5 February 1924 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Silent Russian intertitles |
Cast
- Yevgeni Boronikhin
- Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky
- Marina Yuryeva
- Kondrat Yakovlev
- Sergei Shishko
- Gennadiy Michurin as Dmitriy Karakozov
- Pyotr Andriyevsky
- Yakov Malyutin
- N. Komarovskaya
- Petr Kuznetsov
References
- Christie & Taylor p.431
Bibliography
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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