| The Great Citizen (Великий гражданин) | |
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| Directed by | Fridrikh Ermler |
| Written by | Mikhail Bleiman Manuel Bolshintsov Fridrikh Ermler |
| Starring | Nikolay Bogolyubov |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Edited by | Ye. Makhankova |
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Running time | 252 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.
A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.
Cast
- Nikolay Bogolyubov - Shakhov - the great citizen
- Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
- Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
- Zoya Fyodorova - Nadya
- Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
- Boris Chirkov - Maksim, the investigator
- Pyotr Kirillov - Briantsev - the assassin
- Yefim Altus - Katz - Shakhov's helper
- Yelena Yegorova
- Yevgeni Pankov
- Yevgeni Nemchenko - Dronov
- Georgi Semyonov - Kolesnikov
- V. Kiselyov - Gladkikh
- A. Polibin - Solovyev
- Sergei Kurilov
- N. Raiskaya-Dore - Shakhov's mother
- Natalya Rashevskaya - Olga
- K. Ryabinkin - Kryuchkov
External links
- The Great Citizen at IMDb