Cain and Artem

Synopsis

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs and his scandalous struggle with “bourgeois” and “formalist” filmmaking, Petrov-Bytov directed an aesthetically refined work, shot entirely on set with masterful chiaroscuro lighting: a perfect example of “Soviet expressionism.” Based on a Maxim Gorky story, the plot of Cain and Artem provides a wake-up call to the Russian people to overcome alcoholism and religious factionalism, as it spotlights the (many) drunken denizens of a typical village and their disregard for the Jewish shoemaker Cain.

Main Cast

Emil Gal

Cain

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Nikolai Simonov

Artem

Age : N/A | Popularity : 28%

Yelena Yegorova

Woman in the Market Place

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Georgiy Uvarov

Husband of Woman in the Market Place

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Maxim Gorky
Directing	Director	Pavel Petrov-Bytov
Crew	Cinematography	Nikolai Ushakov
Department	Role	Name

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