The Devil's Wheel
1926 film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- 16 March 1926 (1926-03-16)
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Russian intertitles
The Devil's Wheel (Russian: Чёртово колесо, romanized: Chyortovo koleso) is a 1926 Soviet silent crime action film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg.[1]
Plot
During a walk in the garden of the People's House, sailor Ivan Shorin meets Valya and, having missed the scheduled time is late for the ship which is departing for a cruise. The next morning he has to go to a distant foreign trek and his slight delay has turned into a desertion. The young people are sheltered by artists who turn out to be ordinary punks. Not wanting to become a thief, Ivan runs away and surrenders himself to the authorities. After the trial of his friends and just punishment, he returns to his former life.
Cast
- Pyotr Sobolevsky – Ivan Shorin, sailor from the cruiser "Aurora"
- Lyudmila Semyonova – Valka, street girl
- Sergei Gerasimov – Magician "Human-Question", leader of the bandit gang
- Emil Gal – Entertainer Coco, "Question"'s friend
- Yanina Zhejmo – Girl from the gang
- Sergey Martinson – Orchestra conductor
- Andrei Kostrichkin – One of the inhabitants of the bandits' den
- Nikolai Gorodnichev – Punk "Superintendent"
- Antonio Tserep – Cellar owner
References
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 201.
External links
- The Devil's Wheel at IMDb
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Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev
- The Adventures of Oktyabrina (1924)
- Mishki versus Yudenich (1925)
- The Devil's Wheel (1926)
- The Overcoat (1926)
- The Club of the Big Deed (1927)
- Little Brother (1927)
- The New Babylon (1929)
- Alone (1931)
- The Youth of Maxim (1935)
- The Return of Maxim (1937)
- The Vyborg Side (1938)
- The Young Fritz (1943)
- Simple People (1946)
- Pirogov (1947)
- Belinsky (1953)
- Don Quixote (1957)
- Hamlet (1964)
- King Lear (1971)
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