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Status
Released
Release
1924
Runtime
1h 6m
Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.
19 Cast Members
Pyotr Leontyev
Chekist Stalnoy / Knysh
Aleksandr Khachaturyants
Red commander
Boris Shlikhting
Petrov
Vladimir Kriger
White commander
T. Kotelnikova
Katya Govorkova
Ivan Arkadin
Katya's father
Olga Narbekova
Mother
F. Osipov
Ugor
Antonin Pankryshev
Kozyrev
Andrei Gorchilin
Knysh's negotiator
Nikolai Okhlopkov
Violinist
Alexandr Gromov
Chairman
Nikolai Bravko
Bandit
Vsevolod Massino
Galina Kravchenko
Lev Ivanov
Party official (uncredited)
Andrey Fayt
Officer
Yevgeni Chervyakov
Ekaterina Maloletnova
