| Sickle and Hammer | |
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| Directed by | Vladimir Gardin |
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| Cinematography | Eduard Tisse |
| Production company | VFKO |
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| Country | Russia |
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Sickle and Hammer (Russian: Серп и молот, romanized: Serp i molot) is a 1921 Russian silent drama film directed by Vladimir Gardin. It is an agit-film that is longer than the usual at six reels because the norm is two reels only or twenty minutes. The story is about a peasant worker who went to the city to become a factory worker, then he eventually fights in the World War and after this, he returns to his own village as a Red Army commander.
Plot
Fleeing from the family of the wealthy peasant Kulak, the farm laborer Andrei, along with his beloved Agasha Gorbova and her brother Petr from a poor peasant family, moves to the capital, Moscow, in search of work. After securing a job, Andrei marries Agasha. However, World War I and then the October Revolution separate the couple for a long time.
Cast
- Aleksandr Gromov as Ivan Gorbov
- Anatoli Gorchilin as Pyotr
- N. Zubova as Agasha
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Andrey
- Sergey Komarov
- Ye. Bedunkevich
- N. Belyakov
- Anna Chekulaeva
- A. Golovanov
- Y. Kaverina
- M. Kudelko
- Feofan Shipulinsky
- N. Vishnyak
References
- Sargeant p.1
- Youngblood, Denise J. (1991). Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77645-6.
- "SERP I MOLOT (1921)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
Bibliography
- Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris, 2001.
External links
| The films of Vladimir Gardin | |
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