Cinema in Russia

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Cast

Viktor Khokhryakov
Narrator

Leo Tolstoy
Archive footage

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Film footage

Aleksandra Goncharova
Film footage

Michael Chekhov
Film footage
Nikolai Vasilyev
Film footage
Pavel Knorr
Film footage

Andrey Gromov
Film footage

Ivan Mosjoukine
Film footage

Antoni Fertner
Film footage

Olga Drevnitskaya
Archive footage
Ivan Poddubniy
Archive footage
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