The Devil's Wheel

Synopsis

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.

Main Cast

Lyudmila Semyonova

Valya

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Vanya Shorin

Age : 73 | Popularity : 4%

Emil Gal

Vaudeville Performer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sergei Gerasimov

Man The Question

Age : 79 | Popularity : 5%

Andrei Kostrichkin

Drummer

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Yanina Zhejmo

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Antonio Tserep

Tavern Owner

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

N. Foregger

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg
Writing	Writer	Adrian Piotrovsky
Art	Art Direction	Evgeny Eney
Camera	Director of Photography	Andrey Moskvin
Department	Role	Name

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