The Decembrists (film)

The Decembrists (Russian: Декабристы, romanized: Dekabristy) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.^[1][2]

The Decembrists
Directed by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Written by	Aleksandr Ivanovsky Pavel Shchyogolev
Cinematography	Ivan Frolov
Production company	Leningradkino
Release date	8 February 1927 (1927-02-08)
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

Plot

The film recreates the history of the movement of the Decembrists: an outbreak of peasant revolts, organization of nobility circles and the actual uprising; against the background of these events unfolds the romantic love story of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and French milliner Pauline Gueble.

Cast

• Vladimir Maksimov as Emperor Alexander I
• Yevgeni Boronikhin as Emperor Nicholas I
• Varvara Annenkova as Polina Gebl-Annenkova
• Boris Tamarin as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov
• Tamara Godlevskaya as Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
• Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
• Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
• Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
• Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
• Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva