Locksmith and Chancellor

Locksmith and Chancellor
Locksmith and Chancellor
Directed by	Vladimir Gardin
Written by	Vladimir Gardin; Anatoli Lunacharsky (play); Vsevolod Pudovkin;
Cinematography	Yevgeni Slavinsky
Production; company	VUFKU
Release date	1923
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent ; Russian intertitles

Locksmith and Chancellor (Template:Lang-ru) is a 1923 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin based on the play of Anatoli Lunacharsky.^[1]^[2]

The film's art direction was by Vladimir Yegorov.

Synopsis

The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group of conspirators who were dissatisfied with this state of affairs, led by the Social Democrat Frank Frey arrange a coup to overthrew the emperor of Norland. But the working class does not like the new order either. Workers expose Frank Frey's policy of continuing the war and a revolution breaks out in the country. The leader of the socialist revolution becomes a mechanic of the name Franz Stark.

Cast

Ivan Khudoleyev as Emperor of Norland
Nikolai Panov as Chancellor von Turau
N. Tairova as von Turau's wife
Vladimir Gardin as Gammer
Vladimir Maksimov as Frank Frey, lawyer
Zoya Barantsevich as Countess Mitsi
Iona Talanov as Berenberg
Nikolai Saltykov as Franz Stark, locksmith
Lidiya Iskritskaya-Gardina as Anna
Oleg Frelikh as Leo von Turau
Ivan Kapralov as Robert von Turau
V. Valitskaya as Lora von Turau, Robert's wife
Olga Bystritskaya as Anna, Leo's lover
A. Semyonov as Netli, chancellor's secretary
M. Arnazi
Aleksandra Rebikova
Evgeniy Gryaznov
Karl Tomski
Nikolay Popov
Stepan Kuznetsov
Olga Preobrazhenskaya

References

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 159.
^ Sargeant p.1

Bibliography

Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris, 2001.

External links

Locksmith and Chancellor at IMDb

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[leyda-1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 159.

[2] Sargeant p.1

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